Massive IoT botnet Mirai helped fuel a 280% rise in telnet botnet attack activity in the first half of the year over the previous period, but small-to midsized (SMB) business are surprisingly better prepared to deal with IoT threats in general than large enterprises, according to data from separate IoT reports released today.
In its survey of 950 IT professionals from SMBs to large enterprises, Pwnie Express found SMBs check their wireless devices for malicious infections and their employees’ BYOD devices for malicious infections with greater frequency than large enterprises.
