Which is all very interesting, but doesn’t answer the main question for me, which is this: why would anyone want a smart fish tank? Turns out the fish tank was basically like a luxury smart home for its piscine occupants: ensuring that their environment was kept comfortable and they were fed on a regular basis, leaving the casino owners free to wander around looking for card-counters. “Someone used the fish tank to get into the network, and once they were in the fish tank, they scanned and found other vulnerabilities and moved laterally to other places in the network,” Justin Fier, Darktrace’s director of cyber intelligence and analysis, told CNN.
Despite having some security in place, the hackers were able to access the main network and send data to a device in Finland before the remote access was spotted. Yes, the house somehow always wins, but only when people stick to the official games of roulette and poker, and stay away from the very unofficial game of cracking the security on the internet-connected fish tank.Īn unnamed casino in America suffered this kind of unwelcome attention, according to Darktrace’s corporate network report. Your whole business model operates on the basis that anyone can walk in and take your money based on a game of chance. If you run a casino, you’re a bit of a target.
