They compromise home internet users and/or their IOT devices mostly with scripts and malware. So the investment for the scammer is mostly in researching exploi

They compromise home internet users and/or their IOT devices mostly with scripts and malware. So the investment for the scammer is mostly in researching exploits and seeding their malware. Most of them just use exploits created by others, but the best ones with the biggest networks are actually very capable security researchers. Given different circumstances they could probably be highly paid engineers.