The Lazarus Effect: Healing Compromised Devices in the Internet of Small Things
Manuel Huber, Stefan Hristozov, Simon Ott, Vasil Sarafov, Marcus Peinado · 2020
We live in a time when billions of IoT devices are being deployed and increasingly relied upon. This makes ensuring their availability and recoverability in case of a compromise a paramount goal. The large and rapidly growing number of deployed IoT devices make manual recovery impractical, especially if the devices are dispersed over a large area. Thus, there is a need for a reliable and scalable remote recovery mechanism that works even after attackers have taken full control over devices, possibly misusing them or trying to render them useless.