In 2016, an Internet of Things worm called Mirai tore through the internet , building botnets of millions of badly designed CCTVs, PVRs, routers and other gadgets, sending unstoppable floods of traffic that took down major internet services from Paypal to Reddit to Dyn. (more…)

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A new IoT botnet called Reaper could be far more virulent than Mirai