Source Code for Mirai Internet of Things Botnet Appears Online
To put this potential into perspective, Mirai is capable of pulling in several hundreds of thousands of bots from IoT devices. Security researchers have come across the source code for the Internet of Things botnet called Mirai. This botnet has been used to launch major DDoS attacks against various websites. Such a powerful tool could be used to shut down nearly any public website in existence today. Now that the source code has been leaked, it becomes a lot easier to render the botnet useless. Connecting millions of devices to the Internet sounds great on paper, but it creates a big....
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