Security News > 2016 > October > Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers (Threatpost)
2016-10-22 10:00
Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others.
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http://threatpost.com/mirai-fueled-iot-botnet-behind-ddos-attacks-on-dns-providers/121475/
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