I expect it was doing cold calls as well. igmc.

http://www.cnet.com/news/fridge-caught-sending-spam-emails-in-botnet-attack/

The attack sent out over 750,000 spam emails, in bursts of 100,000 emails at a time, three times a day, with no more than 10 emails sent from any one IP address, making them difficult to block. Over 25 per cent of the emails were sent from devices that weren’t conventional computers or mobile devices

chilling.

Hopefully it’ll end up spending some time in the cooler.

Has your post been frozen for over a year?

Most of the devices, Proofpoint found, weren’t subject to a sophisticated attack. Instead, misconfiguration and the use of default passwords had left them open on public networks and therefore vulnerable to this kind of attack.

Good article on how many 1000s of sites are completely open to anyone who knocks on the front door:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2893724/iots-dark-side-hundreds-of-unsecured-devices-open-to-attack.html

Sorry for the lack of cooler related puns…

We have oodles of “fun” on that site