Friday’s DDoS attack came from 100,000 infected devices

Friday’s massive internet disruption came from hackers using an estimated 100,000 devices, many of which have been infected with a notorious malware that can take over cameras and DVRs, said DNS provider Dyn.

“We are able to confirm that a significant volume of attack traffic originated from Mirai-based botnets,” Dyn said in a Wednesday blog post.

The malware known as Mirai had already been blamed for causing at least part of Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attack, which targeted Dyn and slowed access to many popular sites in the U.S.

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