Aposemat Polonium In My IoT (PIMI) Project

The hypothesis for this research is that there is not only money but also political and social interest involved in the attacks on IoT devices. Attackers are being paid by governments, politicians and other groups to create fake accounts, to attack, to spread computational propaganda and trolling. 

Goal: Detect campaigns using IoT devices for political purposes.

Description of the project

This project aims to study the unauthorized use of IoT devices to make political attacks, such as DDoS and social trolling among others. 

The hypothesis is that governments/politicians and other groups hire attackers to generate fake facebook/instagram and twitter accounts to spread political propaganda, fake news, trolling, likes, etc. The attackers make use of IoT devices as proxy servers to generate and manage those accounts.

All of our research related to this project will be posted in a series of blog posts on this page.

Stay tuned for more information.