Mirai botnet

really digging into the Mirai botnet

this was a big DDoS thing with the cameras and, you know, all the Internet of Things devices

a lot of it is speculative

the Mirai botnet ... has knocked about 900,000 Germans offline

there's a new variant out there that looks for a vulnerability in some of the routers

some of the devices that weren't even vulnerable to this are being affected

we've spoken in the past about the Mirai botnets

their ability to assemble any one powerful botnet has been greatly diminished

The big Mirai botnet that took down large portions of North America

Turns out it was about 100,000 devices

For about $7,500, you can get your own Mirai botnet for hire with many, many thousands of devices.

Once it gets a hold of a device, the first thing it does is it starts looking for more devices.