The report draws on 5.4 billion security events and 6.2 billion vulnerability observations collected from January through September 2026 across routers protected by Bitdefender’s smart-home security technology.
They generated 270.3 million vulnerability observations across the reporting period – the largest count of any device category.
The television’s second job Beyond conventional vulnerabilities, the report highlights a growing concern around proxy software bundled into smart TV apps.
The U.S. Department of Justice dismantled four IoT botnets during the reporting period, including operations that had compromised more than a million devices.
Network-attached storage devices rounded out the top three at 22 per cent of observations, with 261.6 million records.