New defense method enables telecoms, ISPs to protect consumer IoT devices – Help Net Security
Instead of relying on customers to protect their vulnerable smart home devices from being used in cyberattacks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a new method that enables telecommunications and internet service providers to monitor these devices.
According to their new study, the ability to launch massive DDoS attacks via a botnet of compromised devices is an exponentially growing risk in the Internet of Things (IoT). Such attacks, possibly emerging from IoT devices in home networks, impact the attack target, as well as the infrastructure of telcos.