The Mirai botnet has spread like wildfire and now infects 2,398 home routers across the UK, with 99 percent of them being Talk Talk routers. The Mirai botnet has spread like wildfire and now infects 2,398 home routers across the UK, with 99 percent of them being TalkTalk routers. According to research by cyber security firm Imperva, the Mirai botnet was used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and has been responsible for taking down major services such as Amazon, Twitter, GitHub, Spotify and Reddit, as well as knocking out broadband services from Talk Talk and The Post Office offline. The botnet was also used to launch a DDoS attack against Deutsche Telekom routers which saw the over 900,000 of its customers affected, however it is not known if this attack was caused by the same Mirai bot nets as the other ones.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Silicon
