Proactive security strategies to stave off growing cyber-attacks in IoT and credential abuse – CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives
The first documented Internet of Things (IoT) cyber-attack took place in 2014, when a smart refrigerator had been caught red-handed for spawning over 750,000 spam emails after being hijacked by a botnet attack. A more recent case in the US concerns an internet-connected thermostat in an aquarium, which hackers successfully controlled to access a database of high-roller gamblers in a casino.