“As enterprises get better at protecting their digital infrastructure, cybercriminals are turning to connected home devices,” the report said, describing home IoT devices as “an ideal foothold,” because they are “always on, reliable, and rarely monitored.”
Dive Insight: The Bitdefender/Netgear report contains a wide range of data about exposed IoT devices, the vulnerabilities they carry, and the attacks they experience.
Virtually all of the IoT exposures that Netgear and Bitdefender found involved known vulnerabilities with available patches.
Three high-severity Linux flaws topped the list of firmware CVEs affecting IoT devices, according to the research.
As businesses survey the IoT cybersecurity landscape, the report’s predictions offer guidance for how to prioritize asset inventorying and continuous monitoring.