Anker s Eufy home-security cameras turned into unwitting spies and targets to be ogled. A new botnet, Simp, uses known security vulnerabilities only one of the weak spots typical in IoT nodes. Pwning IoT devices is as easy as hacking an ultrasound machine running on the legacy Windows 2000 operating system, with its known, unpatched vulnerabilities a device that won t be patched by the vendor because it’s end-of-life. Organizations can have diverse types of devices alongside healthcare IT, of course.
Source: https://threatpost.com/nanotech-secure-iot-devices/166324/