%T Dumbots: Unexpected Botnets through Networked Embedded Devices
%A Kwang-Hyun Baek
%A Sergey Bratus
%A Sara Sinclair
%A Sean W. Smith
%R Technical Report TR2007-591
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D May 2007
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2007-591.pdf
%X
 Currently, work on botnets focuses primarily on PCs. However, as lightweight computing devices with
 embedded operating systems become more ubiquitous, they present a new and very disturbing target
 for botnet developers. In this paper, we present both an empirical demonstration on a widely deployed
 multimedia box, as well as an evaluation of the deeper potential of these dumbots.