How botnets infiltrate the internet of things

About this episode

The episode discusses how botnets infiltrate devices connected to the internet and their potential for malicious use.

Routers, computers, web cameras — they all connect to the internet. And they can be infected with malicious software that lets someone else take over. The device becomes a bot, essentially. A group of these devices networked together then becomes a botnet. And these botnets can then be used for nefarious purposes, like distributed denial of service attacks, without the device owners even knowing about it. Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs recently wrote about several large botnets including one called Kimwolf that compromised more than three million devices.

Topics covered

• botnets
• internet of things
• cybersecurity
• malicious software
• distributed denial of service attacks

Keywords

• botnets
• internet of things
• cybersecurity
• malicious software
• DDoS attacks
• Brian Krebs
• Kimwolf

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kimwolf

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