If you want to do some fun hacking project, Temu and similar websites are a trove of insecure cheap IoT devices made with almost 0 security consideration. Security camera, car chargers, sport tracking devices, etc.
If you are a bad actor, that is also probably a very easy way to find new ways to enroll devices in your botnet.
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If you want to do some fun hacking project, Temu and similar websites are a trove of insecure cheap IoT devices made with almost 0 security consideration. Security camera, car chargers, sport tracking devices, etc.
If you are a bad actor, that is also probably a very easy way to find new ways to enroll devices in your botnet.
So many of them are hosting some sort of server they /have/ to talk back to. Wouldn't be so bad if they just acted entirely self contained...
So the question is, what is the vendors benefit from running these servers.
I think they’re more secure by the virtue of being niche. Nobody will build an exploit chain to sniff for and target these devices.
By the virtue of being cheap garbage, they actually sell very well and can be found quite a lot in the wild. So they are not that niche.