When your living room becomes a cyber battleground¶
Home networks have quietly become serious attack surface. Government apps, school portals, shared family devices, and the expanding population of internet-connected appliances have all expanded the exposure without a corresponding expansion in household security practice. The attack surface grows; the habits often do not.
This section maps the threat landscape relevant to home users: who is attacking, what techniques they use, where the gaps are, and what can be done about them. The MITRE ATT&CK framework provides structure for the last part.
Knowing what is coming in is the first step to deciding what stays out.
- The threat backdrop
- Who is out there
- Criminal marketplaces
- When security tools get repurposed
- Malware as a service
- Ransomware as a service
- Infostealer as a service
- Living off the land
- Botnets
- No platform is inherently safe
- Drive-by downloads
- When MFA gets bypassed
- Quantum computing and encryption
- Overlooked dependencies
- Mobile threats
- Using MITRE ATT&CK at home