The weaponization of IoT devices - April 2017
Threat actors use botnets—networks of infected computers—for various cybercriminal purposes, most significantly distributed denial of service attacks against predefined targets.
Threat actors use botnets—networks of infected computers—for various cybercriminal purposes, most significantly distributed denial of service attacks against predefined targets. Today, botnets with distributed denial of services (DDoS) capabilities are even for sale on the Dark Web. In March 2016 our IBM report The inside story on botnets explored the botnet cybercrime landscape. How has this threat evolved?