Mirai botnet attackers are trying to knock an entire country offline

‘One of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks happened this week and almost nobody noticed.
Since the cyberattack on Dyn two weeks ago, the internet has been on edge, fearing another massive attack that would throw millions off the face of the web. The attack was said to be upwards of 1.1 Tbps — more than double the attack a few weeks earlier on security reporter Brian Krebs’ website, which was about 620 Gbps in size, said to be one of the largest at the time. The attack was made possible by the Mirai botnet, an open-source botnet that anyone can use, which harnesses the power of insecure Internet of Things devices.
This week, another Mirai botnet, known as Botnet 14, began targeting a small, little-known African country, sending it almost entirely offline each time.’
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