As numerous studies have shown, smart houses, smart cars, and smart cities are undeniably beneficial to people in everyday life, but quite often can become a threat to their safety. It is not only a matter of personal data leakage. Just imagine that, for example, a smart refrigerator, affected by a third party at one point or another, would begin identifying expired products as fresh. There is yet another more dismal scenario: the system of a smart car turns the vehicle to the right at high speed, catching the driver unaware…
According to Gartner, there are currently over 6 billion IoT devices on the planet. Such a huge number of potentially vulnerable gadgets could not possibly go unnoticed by cybercriminals. As of May 2017, Kaspersky Lab’s collections included several thousand different malware samples for IoT devices, about half of which were detected in 2017.
По данным Gartner в мире сейчас насчитывается более 6 миллиардов «умных» устройств. Такое количество потенциально уязвимых гаджетов не осталось незамеченным злоумышленниками: по данным на май 2017 года в коллекции «Лаборатории Касперского» находилось несколько тысяч различных образцов вредоносного ПО для «умных» устройств, причем около половины из них были добавлены в 2017 году.