Cyber Warning For OS Inside 2 Billion Industrial, Medical And Enterprise IoT Devices
Armis has estimated that the vulnerabilities expose around 200 million of the devices carrying the VxWorks OS to the potential risk of attack. A spokesperson for Wind River, the company behind VxWorks, disputed this and told me the number is not that high: “Those impacted by the vulnerabilities make up a small subset of our customer base, and primarily include enterprise devices that are internet-facing such as modems, routers, and printers, as well as some industrial and medical devices-Armis sites 200 million, which, based on impacted customers is not a confirmed number that we believe is accurate.”