Kaspersky honeypots harvest 100 million IoT attacks
Kaspersky says its networked virtual copies of various IoT devices and applications have detected 105 million attacks in the first six months of 2019, a 12 fold increase on H1 2018.
According to Kaspersky many people and organisations consider it unnecessary to protect these devices, but cyber criminals see financial opportunities in exploiting such gadgets to conduct DDoS attacks, or as proxies for other types of malicious actions.