When the Mirai botnet first made waves back in 2016 taking down DynDNS services using an Internet of Things (IoT)-powered botnet, cybersecurity experts warned that this was just the warm-up act. Mirai marked the first splashy real-world example of the kind of attacks that the bad guys could carry out when harnessing the power of IoT devices in a well-controlled botnet. And as predicted by experts following the rollout of Mirai, the hits just keep coming via IoT botnets.
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