A Review on Cyber Crimes on the Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly becoming universal. The success of IoT can’t be ignored in today’s scenario; along with its attacks and threats on IoT devices and facilities are also increasing day by day. Day by day cyber-attacks are becoming a part of IoT and affecting the life and society of users, so steps must be taken to defend cyber seriously. Cybercrimes threaten the infrastructure of governments and businesses globally and can damage the users in innumerable ways. Various steps are taken to slow down these attacks but unfortunately not able to achieve success properly up to now. Therefore secure IoT is the need of this time and hence understanding of attacks and threats in IoT structure should be studied. The reasons for Cyber-attacks can be 1. Countries having week cyber security mechanisms, 2. Cybercriminals use new technologies to attack. 3. Cybercrime is possible with services and other business schemes. In this regard, MSP (Managed Service Providers) face different difficulties in fighting with Cybercrime. They have to ensure that customer’s security as well as their security in terms of their servers, devices, and systems. Hence, they must use effective, fast, and easily usable antivirus and anti-malware tools. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.