In 2014, there were 245 million surveillance cameras operating around the world, reports show. CCTV cameras are among the most common IoT devices. Botnet activity traced back to compromised CCTV cameras. Botnets are some of our oldest foes, but old foes have the capacity to surprise, as one of our clients was recently targeted by repeated HTTP flood attacks. The attack was run of the mill, peaking at 20,000 requests per second (RPS) The surprise came later when, upon combing through the list of attacking IPs, we discovered that some of the botnet devices were located right in our own back yard.”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/cctv-botnet-in-our-own-back-yard/