For example, last year, Nokia noted in its 2023 Nokia Threat Intelligence Report that IoT botnet DDoS attacks increased fivefold from 2022 to 2023. Indeed, more than 40 percent of all DDoS traffic today comes from IoT botnets.
First, IoT devices tend not to have operating systems as such, but rather firmware that also acts as an operating system. In short, any security problems in the firmware are easily accessible to a would-be attacker.
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