In a world where technology and software are intertwined with our daily lives more than ever, a silent threat grows in the shadows. End-of-life devices—abandoned by manufacturers - power our homes, hospitals, businesses and critical infrastructure. From the depths of the cyber underground, malicious software from cybercriminal and nation-state actors is seizing these forgotten devices and conscripting them into botnets and other malicious infrastructure. For example, Black Lotus Labs revealed a chilling trend: 40,000 small office home office (SOHO) routers compromised and enrolled in the sinister 'Faceless' botnet - now powered by devices you own and thought were safe. And it's not just routers. Critical medical devices, essential security hardware—smart home appliances. No gadget is safe. And, with the Internet of Things set to double in the next decade, billions of vulnerable devices marketed and sold to connect us risk robbing, dividing and defeating us in the years to come.