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Nobody knows for sure who launched a massive Mirai botnet attack against parts of the internet on Friday, but there’s no denying that they made themselves felt.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of devices are thought to have been compromised by Mirai and recruited into the botnet. That botnet was then put to work, launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against the Dyn domain name service that had a dramatic impact on some of the world’s most popular websites, making them inaccessible to many internet users.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DDos...
Nobody knows for sure who launched a massive Mirai botnet attack against parts of the internet on Friday, but there’s no denying that they made themselves felt.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of devices are thought to have been compromised by Mirai and recruited into the botnet. That botnet was then put to work, launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against the Dyn domain name service that had a dramatic impact on some of the world’s most popular websites, making them inaccessible to many internet users.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DDos...