IoT devices end up sitting ducks as hackers launch 10 crore attacks

Here’s some bad news for tech-savvy people and organisations that have zealously begun using Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as smart cameras but don’t care to protect them from hackers.

Hackers are not sweating to breaking into the systems. They are using primitive methods such as guessing passwords. Some victims are found to be using easy-to-guess passwords such as admin.

Top-10 victim countries

India has just entered the Top-10 list of countries with most attacks on IoT devices in the first half of 2019. That the country didn’t figure in the list in the same period last year shows how alarming the situation is.