Classification of cyber threats for internet of things

Abstract

Smart home consists of various Internet of things (IoT) devices. These IoT devices are designed to help and simplify people’s lives. The technical progress of the IoT field is aimed at simplifying human life, thereby creating new cyber threats. Different scientific papers are mentioned that number of IoT devices is growing constantly by 15% per year. As a result, around 1.6 billion IoT devices will be used globally over the internet. It means that IoT devices will be accessed over internet by consumers. Nowadays, Internet is accessible easily by everyone, so they can afford freely the ecosystem of IoT devices at home. Within this development of IoT ecosystem, consumers can face serious problems of transmission and storage of information by IoT devices. These problems might be data theft from IoT devices, using such IoT devices for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, user tracking and so on. Local cyber threats provide an opportunity for an attacker to gain access to a home network and take advantages of it. Global cyber threats are dangerous because IoT devices can be controlled remotely from anywhere in the world without the knowledge of the user. One of the risks is that the user’s home network of IoT devices could be controlled by botnets to carry out cyber-attacks. The article describes and analyzes current threats to IoT smart home devices and provides examples of data collected and processed by smart devices. Collecting information about users through IoT devices is a novelty of this work.