Difficult for Thee, But Not for Me: Measuring the Difficulty and User Experience of Remediating Persistent IoT Malware. (arXiv:2203.01683v1 [cs.CR])

Consumer IoT devices may suffer malware attacks, and be recruited into
botnets or worse. There is evidence that generic advice to device owners to
address IoT malware can be successful, but this does not account for emerging
forms of persistent IoT malware. Less is known about persistent malware, which
resides on persistent storage, requiring targeted manual effort to remove it.
This paper presents a field study on the removal of persistent IoT malware by
consumers. We partnered with an ISP …

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