Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released

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Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released

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The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against KrebsOnSecurity last month has been publicly released, virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices...{more}
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/sou ... -released/
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