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Wired: Friday's East Coast Internet Outage Is a Major DDOS Attack.

October 21, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Internet, Security
Initial reports indicate that the attack was part of a genre of DDoS that infects Internet of Things devices (think webcams, DVRs, routers, etc.) all over the world with malware. Once infected, those Internet-connected devices become part of a botnet army, driving malicious traffic toward a given target. The source code for one of these types of botnets, called Mirai, was recently released to the public, leading to speculation that more Mirai-based DDoS attacks might crop up.

More background, as the attack gets parsed.

October 21, 2016 /Garret Vreeland /Source
Internet, Security
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