appliences that connect to your internet are supposed to be secured, but cheap Chinese ones usually arent. this means they can easily get hacked and added to a botnet thats used for DDoS attacks. I once saw a screenshot of someone whose washing machine uploaded ~30GB of data per month.
the best thing to do against this is to just not connect them to the internet.
A DDOS attack on my toaster would be quite dangerous actually, what’s the cybersecurity framework to secure my toaster
appliences that connect to your internet are supposed to be secured, but cheap Chinese ones usually arent. this means they can easily get hacked and added to a botnet thats used for DDoS attacks. I once saw a screenshot of someone whose washing machine uploaded ~30GB of data per month.
the best thing to do against this is to just not connect them to the internet.