Black Hat HoneyPots for IOT Devices is This How Botnets are Started?

Black Hat HoneyPots for IOT Devices? from ThreatPost Stories From Two Years in an IoT Honeypot “Our idea was to run honeypots in people’s houses, some of my friends accepted, some of my friends didn’t,” Demeter said of the project, which he carried under the guidance of GReAT Director Costin Raiu. Demeter said the devices, mostly faulty routers, didn’t affect the users’ internet activity, they just silently recorded pings. After planting vulnerable devices, mostly in the UK and his native Romania, Demeter was able to register 200 malicious or abusive…