Attacks using IoT devices escalate in 2019

guest · Sep 12, 2019

Attacks using IoT devices escalate in 2019
September 12, 2019
https://betanews.com/2019/09/12/iot-device-attacks-escalate/?

Cyber criminals have upped the intensity of IoT attacks and those using Windows SMB in the first half of 2019, according to a new F-Secure report.

F-Secure's honeypot servers measured a twelvefold increase in such events compared to the same period a year ago. The increase was driven by traffic targeting the Telnet and UPnP protocols, which are used by IoT devices, as well as the SMB protocol, which is used by the Eternal family of exploits to propagate ransomware and banking Trojans.

"The insecurity of the IoT, for one, is only getting more profound, with more and more devices cropping up all the time and then being co-opted into botnets. And the activity on SMB indicates there are still too many machines out there that remain unpatched."

Among other findings are that countries whose IP spaces played host to the highest numbers of attack sources are China, the US, Russia, and Germany. Countries where the most attacks were directed were the US, Austria, Ukraine, UK, the Netherlands, and Italy.
The greatest share of Telnet traffic came from the US, Germany, UK and the Netherlands, while the greatest share of SMB traffic came from China.
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F-Secure: Attack Landscape H1 2019: IoT, SMB traffic abound
Report: Attack Landscape H1 2019 (PDF - 1.56 MB): https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/evermade-fsecure-assets/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/12093807/2019_attack_landscape_report.pdf

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