Hacker Takes Coffee Machine Hostage In Surreal Ransomware Attack

My office is full of gadgets and gizmos, as you might expect of a technology journalist. Among them, one stands proud of all others when it comes to my productivity: the coffee machine.

Perhaps that is why I have opted for an old-fashioned, dumb, and disconnected device to brew my morning expresso. As security researchers from Avast discovered, smart coffee machines can not only be hacked but can be hacked with ransomware. […]

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