DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and Other Botnets

tified in August 2016 by the whitehat security research group ... Netflix, Reddit, and GitHub—for several hours. 6 Mirai primarily spreads by first infecting devices such as webcams, DVRs, and routers that run some ver-sion of BusyBox (busybox.net). It then deduces the administrative credentials of other IoT devices by means of brute force, relying on a small dictionary of potential username–password pairs. … ................
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