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Cybersecurity & Risk

The IoT Botnet Crisis: How Billions of Connected Devices Became the Internet’s Biggest

Over 20 Billion Devices, Minimal Security The numbers have crossed a threshold that makes the problem structural, not anecdotal. IoT Analytics' State of IoT 2025 report, published in October 2025, estimates 21.1 billion connected IoT devices globally in 2025 — a 14% increase