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November 28, 2016 05:49 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FqFlOanqBvY/two-hackers-are-selling-ddos-a.html
Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm
The Mirai worm -- first seen attacking security journalist Brian Krebs with 620gbps floods, then taking down Level 3, Dyn and other hardened, well-provisioned internet giants, then spreading to every developed nation on Earth (and being used to take down some of those less-developed nations) despite being revealed as clumsy and amateurish (a situation remedied shortly after by hybridizing it with another IoT worm) -- is now bigger than ever, and you can rent time on it to punish journalists, knock countries offline, or take down chunks of the core internet. (more…)
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