Re:What are Attackers after on IoT Devices?
by laurensr on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:55AM
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Often they want to use them as a massive botnet for DDoS attacks.
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Re:What are Attackers after on IoT Devices?
by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:08AM
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That and because they're low hanging fruits since most of them are built on small budgets, often with outdated kernels and packages, that will never see any SW updates after sale, making exploiting them accessible to any script kiddie with a copy of Kali.