The Rise and Fall of IoT Botnets

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I think IoT botnets will survive but it will not popular. Anyway there is a lot of backdoors from manufacturer in firmwares, Kernels for IoT devices don't have memory protections to make it faster and etc.
It will be just harder to hack IoT's for botnets but it will survive.

Yes, I agree with this. There will be a fair amount of IoT devices but not as popular as there will be a challenge to manage those IoT devices. Unmanaged IoT devices can then become a threat.

I think I've seen a few reports of APT attacks where they gained access to the network by first hacking into a Hikvision IP camera. I think this is common practice when you know internal details about a company. After that, pivoting and sniffing will be much easier and anonymous.