I shot the Echo
This joke, once posted we believe by Ron Futrell on twitter became an inspiration for tons of meme’s. But stop for a second and realize, every day more and more what is called IoT (Internet — of — Things) devices become a part of our office, home, everyday life. Smart TV’s, cameras, refrigerators, kid toys, personal assistants (like mentioned Echo lol), and much more.
Most of these devices are no less then a single chip / single board computers running either version of Linux or other software and designed on a short timelines with no sufficient penetration and security testing.
Mirai, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware) was one of the most successful malware that turned millions of connected to Internet devices into a powerful and destructive botnet army.
Are you sure your smart refrigerator is not stealing your passwords and not part of the crime ring?
Conventional anti virus / anti malware products are totally useless against IoT exploits. In order to protect from existing vulnerabilities and discover a new ones, you need to know your enemy, and that what is BitFence.io doing deploying the sophisticated IoT honeypots all around the world:
We use IoT honeypots to attract IoT threats. We can give manufacturers and consumers tools to protect from all attacks we see in the world.
Currently we catching more then 2 million of threats a day. Only one attack from these 2 million can bring small business IT network to halt or can steal your private information from your home network.
BitFence makes it PROFITABLE to catch IoT hackers. Become our “hacker miner” and earn rewards for catching any malicious activities totally automatically with our StingMiner.
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