Date: January 27th, 2015 Author: jia
Computer security company Kaspersky said that after learning how to invade Apple After the iPhone, hackers may aim at smart TV in the next step. "Now there are some trojans that can pass through Website production Is infected with iPhone. " Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of Kaspersky, said, "Smart TV will become the next goal."
Kaspersky predicted that hackers would be able to interfere with smart TV (that is, the latest generation of TV that can be connected to the Internet) in the future and require users to send paid text messages to unlock them. He also said that criminals may steal funds from users' online movie accounts, or use TV cameras to secretly shoot users.
Hackers are strengthening their attacks on corporate computer networks and personal smartphones to obtain data that can help steal funds. These attacks will spread from Microsoft Windows computers to smartphones running Google Android and Apple iOS systems.
An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
As some enterprise users switched to pirated software and some customers went bankrupt in the economic crisis, Kaspersky's Russian business growth may slow down this year. Russian customers contributed about 15% of Kaspersky's revenue.
"Europe is our largest market, and the depreciation of the euro against the dollar has eaten away several percentage points of our revenue growth," Kaspersky said. The company's programmers are mostly located in Russia, so the sharp fall of the ruble exchange rate last year helped to reduce the cost in dollars.