Smart TVs, plugs and storage account for 67.1% of IoT vulnerabilities, Bitdefender report finds
NTGR•A Bitdefender report with NETGEAR found that smart TVs, smart plugs and network-attached storage made up 67.1% of vulnerability observations across roughly 10.4 million monitored smart homes from January through September.
1. Connected-home vulnerabilities
The report found average household connected-device counts rose to 24 from 22 in 2025. Reconnaissance accounted for 90.1% of detected attack activity, while publicly known vulnerabilities represented 99.97% of observed device flaws.
