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Yes, I am, but unfortunately I do not think I can provide any answers here. A quick internet search reveals some CVEs for nonce reuse.

If I had to, based on absolutely nothing but a gut feeling, guess, I'd think this may appear more frequently in IoT devices, where AES-GCM is attractive because of its speed, but randomness is sometimes in low supply?

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AES-GCM is also used in the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, which is commonly used for IoT-purposes. As a result it’s more often than not available as a hardware-accelerated peripheral, saving both time and power. There’s also hardware-RNG available in those cases.

I think one reason nonce-reuse is a problem in IoT is lack of experience and awareness. Up until relatively recently a lot of embedded development was constrained to just offline devices, so cryptography wasn’t really required.

BLE uses AES-CCM.

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