Mirai

The Mirai botnet is infamous for its role in the October DDoS attack, which was launched through IoT devices and that blocked an array of websites like Twitter and Netflix.

Mirai was launched through webcams, routers and video recorders to overwhelm servers at Dynamic Network Services (Dyn) and led to the blockage of more than 1,200 websites.

The botnet identifies vulnerable IoT devices and logs into them to infect them with malicious software codes, knocking out access by flooding websites with junk data.