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by laurensr 1644 days ago
Often they want to use them as a massive botnet for DDoS attacks.
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That and because they're low hanging fruits since most of them are built on small budgets, often with outdated kernels and packages, that will never see any SW updates after sale, making exploiting them accessible to any script kiddie with a copy of Kali.