Hajime, meaning beginning in Japanese, showed its first signs of activity in October 2016. The botnet has recently been propagating extensively, infecting multiple devices worldwide. To date, the network includes almost 300,000 malware-compromised devices. Most of the infected devices are located in Iran, Vietnam and Brazil. Hajime avoids several networks, including those of General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, the US Postal Service and the US Department of Defense.”]