Over 100 million attacks on IoT devices are detected in the first half of 2019

Cybercriminals take advantage of the poor security of IoT devices to intensify their attempts to create and monetize IoT botnets.

Kaspersky honeypots have detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first half of the year. This figure is seven times higher than that registered in the same period of 2018 when only about 12 million attacks from 69,000 IP addresses were detected.

Cybercriminals take advantage of the poor security of IoT products to intensify their efforts to create and monetize botnet s of IoT. This is one ...