The massive DDoS attack last month on Dyn, the New Hampshire-based Domain Name System (DNS) provider, was mostly an inconvenience. But the attack, enabled by a botnet of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, inevitably led to speculation on what damage a DDoS of that scale could do to even a portion of the nations critical infrastructure (CI)Clearly it could go well beyond inconvenient. Businesses, households, emergency services, the financial industry and yes, the internet, cant function without electricity.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3141601/is-critical-infrastructure-the-next-ddos-target.html