iBoT: IoT Botnet Testbed
Adam Beauchaine, Miles Macchiaroli, Mira Yun · 2021
Security in Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has become increasingly relevant in the recent years. One of the driving reasons for the increased attention in this field is the fast-paced propagation of IoT botnet attacks. Botnet cyber-attacks refer to large scale distributed systems that maliciously exploit devices to perform tasks, such as DDoS attacks. IoT devices make easy attack vectors for such a system, given their tendency to be lightweight and insecure. Provided the increasing gravity of the subject, we have proposed a solution to produce a realistic testbed for the study of IoT botnets with low-cost and off-the-shelf devices. This testbed integrates layer 3 connectivity as well as home and business network topology. Special emphasis has been placed upon network and endpoint logging in this design, and testing has been documented with multiple styles of attacks.