More than half of businesses have faced IoT-related attacks, yet only a third consider IoT cyber security “very important.”

Researchers warn of copycat type attacks as exploit code used in Mirai variant goes public.

The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected internet-of-things (IoT) devices has already more than doubled last year’s total.

In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public network.