IoT Threats: A First Step Into a Much Larger World of Mayhem

Gray hats might have good intentions launching their “vigilante” botnets, but are they really helping us win the war against Death Star-sized thingbots?

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Providers and manufacturers could go a long way toward reducing the very real threat of IoT.

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Businesses, critical systems, infrastructure, and even human life are more threatened than ever as attackers target the Internet-connected “things” that run the modern world.

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While Reaper might be considered an “object lesson” today, it should serve as a blistering warning that IoT security needs to be fixed now.

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When it comes to IoT threats, we’re nowhere near being out of the woods yet; we’ve just barely entered the forest.

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The latest evolution of cyber weapons is brought to you by the default passwords in Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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F5 Labs covered a multitude of threats, vulnerabilities, botnets, attackers, and attacks in 2017. Here are just some of the highlights you might have missed.

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With “thingbots” now launching Death Star-sized DDoS attacks, hosting banking trojans, and causing physical destruction, all signs point to them becoming the attacker infrastructure of the future.

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This episode in The Hunt for IoT Volume 6 series focuses on the threat actors building IoT botnets, how easy IoT devices are to exploit, recent thingbot discoveries, and the status of Mirai infections worldwide.

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