Land Rush: Race is On To Hack Vulnerable IoT Devices

The article describes a surge in opportunistic cybercriminal activity targeting insecure IoT devices—cameras, DVRs, routers and NAS—through brute-force/default-credential logins and exploitation of device vulnerabilities. It highlights malware families (NyaDrop, Mirai, SSHowDown), evidence of widespread automated login attempts (including reuse of default password "xc3511"), and supply-chain factors that have enabled the rapid growth of large IoT botnets used for high-volume DDoS and proxying malicious traffic.