A Recent Year On the Internet: Measuring and Understanding the Threats to Everyday Internet Devices
Afsah Anwar, Yi Hui Chen, Roy Hodgman, Tom Sellers, Engin Kirda, Alina Oprea · 2022
An effective way to improve resilience to cyber attacks is to measure and understand the adversary’s capabilities. Gaining insights into the threats we are exposed to helps us build better defenses, share findings with practitioners, and identify the perpetrators to limit their impact. Honeypot interactions have been widely studied in the past to measure cyber attacks, but the focus of more recent honeypot studies has been on IoT-based threats. Hence, classic threats studied by honeypots in depth a decade ago, such as desktop malware and web threats, have lately received much less attention.