Internet of Things

Mirai first made rounds during August 2016. However, it remained largely unknown at

that time. The botnet originated from the infections coming out via a bulletproof hostingIP.

Afterward, the botnet distributed itself extremely fast. It was estimated that after each

76minutes time interval, the number of its victims doubled at that time. Unsurprisingly, by the

end of its first day in action, the botnet had a tally of 65,000 victims in the form of IoT devices.

A month later, in mid-September, the malware shot to the limelight. At that time,

cybercriminals utilized DDoS attacks in order to target Krebs on Security, a popular blog

which was auth ...