The Evolution of IoT Hacking | IoT For All
Hacking in a general sense rose to public awareness in 1961, but unrelated to computers. The term initially described members of a model railroad club at MIT that figured out how to manipulate those toys. Later, however, the team progressed to computers, as did others in society.
The attack mechanism known for bringing IoT hacking to mainstream awareness is called the “Mirai” botnet. A botnet is a network of Internet-connected things that get infected with malware. They’re then controlled as a group—a network of bots or “botnet”—to carry out tasks without the owners’ knowledge. Read more…