We rely on controllers to send us data about our fish tanks when we’re away, but apparently they can also be used as a gateway to access much more from networks.
But a recent cyber-attack on a casino used an aquarium controller as a portal to funnel data out of a private network, the damage it caused has not been reported but it can’t be good. The internet of things (IOT) has been seeping into our daily lives as well as the aquarium hobby since the beginning, and it’s pretty common to hear about some of these devices used as bots to perform DDOS attacks. An internet connected aquarium controller has just been confirmed as the gateway into the secure network of a casino, and it was used to steal up to 10 gigabytes of data! We knew this day would inevitably come, and it’s actually a surprise that it’s taken this long to happen.
