Empirical Study of System Resources Abused by IoT Attackers

Abstract

IoT devices have been under frequent attacks in recent years, causing severe impacts. Previous research has shown the evolution and features of some specific IoT malware families or stages of IoT attacks through offline sample analysis. However, we still lack a systematic observation of various system resources abused by active attackers and the malicious intentions behind these behaviors. This makes it difficult to design appropriate protection strategies to defend against existing attacks and possible future variants.