MalwareTech: IoT malware is like spiders in your house, not worth clearing out
MalwareTechBlog · x · 2026-10-30
Security researcher MalwareTechBlog responds to Matthew Green, arguing his nuanced take on the limited value of forward-deploying small open-weight models to IoT/edge devices was reduced to "poo-pooing AI."
He compares IoT malware to background noise — the internet equivalent of spiders in your house: nobody likes them, but they're there regardless, and unless an attacker does something overtly harmful like running ORB networks, it isn't worth the effort to remove them. That, he says, is why nobody bothers taking down Mirai botnets anymore.
The other side of the debate: Green worries that even non-experts can now do damage with abliterated models, and that criminals may well evolve.
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