Attack vectors for IoT devices
IoT provides a rich landscape for exploitation and different attack vectors, which, in some cases, are different and unique in comparison to traditional attacks. This is largely because of the limited processing, memory, and low-power requirements of many solutions, which presents challenges for support staff in managing and maintaining IoT deployments. This isn’t to say that it’s difficult to install IoT deployments; in fact, on the contrary, they are implemented with relative ease. It is this ease, however, that brings some threats, vulnerabilities, and challenges to IoT environments. Some of the most common attack vectors in an IoT network are as follows:
- Access control
- Firmware extraction
- Web attacks
- Network service/communication protocol attacks
- Unencrypted local data storage
- Confidentiality and integrity issues
- Cloud computing attacks
- Malicious updates
- Insecure APIs
- Mobile application threats...
