Malware in IoT Software and Hardware

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have conquered the modern world, and they are increasingly gaining ground day by day. Together, with their widespread use also interests from attackers in abusing them are rising, causing increase of malicious software (malware). The goal of this wrok is to introduce a detailed study of currently existing malware threats in IoT devices, that have arisen during the past years for both system hardware and software. For these purposes, first a detailed overview of recent security incidents involvingIoT devices from a software viewpoint, is introduced.Then we present the most widespread types of malware, such as rootkits, ransomware and bots among others.We point out hardware environment with different types of side-channel attacks.Finally, we present existing malware detection methods and outline expected future directions.