It appears with the rising use of IoT (Internet of Things) and webcams, which all run on some form of scaled down Operating System (like Linux). Security patches are hard to install, and most users do not bother with patches to devices.
As such, malicious attacks on these devices are rampant. Hackers can install malware onto these devices and use them to do various things like denial of service (DoS) attacks or increasing traffic to sites their control for profit.
Most users dont even know they are infected. No one have antivirus for devices or IoT yer. And as iot becomes popular, it will become hard to patch all things connected.
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