Anatomy of IoT cyber attacks
The area of cybersecurity is a broad and massive topic beyond the scope of this chapter. However, it is useful to understand three types of IoT-based attacks and exploits. Since the topology of the IoT consists of hardware, networking, protocols, signals, cloud components, frameworks, operating systems, and everything in between, we will now detail three forms of prevalent attacks:
- Mirai: The most damaging DoS attack in history, which spawned from insecure IoT devices in remote areas.
- Stuxnet: A nation-state cyber weapon targeting industrial SCADA IoT devices controlling uranium enrichment centrifuges and causing substantial and irreversible damage to Iran's nuclear program.
- Chain Reaction: A research method to exploit PAN using nothing but a lightbulb—no Internet needed.
By understanding the behaviors of these threats, the architect can derive preventative technologies and processes to ensure similar events...
