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1/5/2016
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Hacker 2016
To-Do List: Botnet All The Things!
Most predicted security crisis of the year is an
impending wave of zombified Internet of Things (IoT) devices taken over to fill
out cybercriminal botnets.
To ring in the new year, Dark
Reading already ran through the list of the most exciting, funny, and
just plain zany security predictions for 2016. But what about the prediction
most likely to come to pass? Beyond a lot of the "more of the
same"-type of predictions, if we had our pick we'd probably vote for one
of the most mentioned prognostications to hit our inboxes in the last few
months. Namely that 2016 is going to be the year that attackers make a
concerted effort to turn the Internet of Things (IoT) into the Botnet of
Things.
Until now, there haven't been any
reported widespread infections of consumer devices used within large-scale
criminal botnets. Two years ago, Proofpoint claimed it found a botnet sending
spam that included a smart refrigerator, but that was later called into question
by a number of researchers, including one from Symantec in a detailed explainer piece a few
days after the initial claims were made. Meanwhile, last fall saw news from
Incapsula researchers that the abuse of CCTVs in botnets is on the rise.
"We first warned about them in
March 2014, when we became aware of a steep 240 percent increase in botnet
activity on our network, much of it traced back to compromised CCTV
cameras," the researchers wrote, filling in details with an anecdote of
an attack they found that they managed to track back to CCTV cameras at a
retail store only about five minutes from their office.
This
research shows that if there is an opening--namely unprotected,
powerful-enough, well-connected, and largely ignored devices--attackers will
take it. While these CCTVs might not be the consumer gadgets most people think
of when they imagine the IoT, they fit within a similar profile and this level
of infection offers a portent for the future.
"By
naively connecting everything to the Internet, we have made our possessions and
personal information extremely vulnerable," says Deepak Patel, vice
president of engineering for Imperva. "IoT essentially means ‘hey, there's
a small computer in there,' and for malicious actors, that also means
‘prey!’"
As
he explains, common IoT security gaffes such as hard-coded default credentials
and poor patch management are essentially spreading blood in the water for
attackers looking for easy marks from which to build their botnets.
According
to Sean Tierney, vice president of threat intelligence for IID, his firm predicts
that in the next two years botnet operators are going to start getting creative
in their use of wearables and connected home products to bulk up their botnet
ranks. They predict that these IoT botnets will be used for everyday DDoS
attacks, pay-per-click fraud, and other wide-ranging attacks.
"As
these devices are used to attack other networks or for retaliatory attacks, it
will eventually lead to the 'Battle of the Botnet' for domination of IoT,"
Tierney says.
Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of
information technology and business innovation. She has focused on information
security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the
security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading. View Full Bio
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