Verizon RISK Team performs cyber investigations for hundreds of commercial enterprises and government agencies annually. In 2015, Verizon’s RISK team was retained to investigate more than 500 cybersecurity incidents occurring in over 40 countries. Verizon released a case of an unnamed university attacked by a botnet. Nearly all systems were found to be living on the segment of the network dedicated to the university’s IoT infrastructure. Everything from light bulbs to vending machines had been connected to the network. The malware had full control of the device and would check in with command infrastructure for updates and change the devices password.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3169936/iot-botnet-bogs-down-college-campus-network.html