To no one’s surprise, the release of the Mirai malware source code has resulted in other crooks creating their own variants, infecting new devices, and more than doubling the size of the original Mirai botnet. This falls exactly into the plans of Anna-senpai, the nickname used by Mirai’s author, who hoped that others would take his malware and create new botnets that will help him conceal his mega-botnet, the one he used to launch the biggest DDoS attacks known today.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia