There has been a steady trickle of pretty alarming news over the past week that when taken as a whole, paints a very bleak picture for the state of IoT security. There is still no sign that this will not be an endemic problem, utterly baked in to the market, and with no sign of recourse. The most significant piece was the FBI’s seizure of a botnet that the US government says was going to be used to attack Ukrainian infrastructure. Apparently orchestrated by the Sofacy hacking group, a Russian organization, it was Cisco that spotted the infection – which it dubbed VPNFilter. The attack targeted equipment from Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link, and QNAP, and Cisco’s report says that the…