100,000 Bots Infected with Mirai Malware Behind Dyn DDoS Attack

Dyn has stated that approximately 100,000 bots infected with Mirai malware helped launch a large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against its domain name system (DNS) infrastructure. Scott Hilton, EVP of product at the internet performance management company, said in a statement on 26 October that the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaign used masked TCP and UDP […]… Read More

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