Internet infrastructure giant Akamai last week released a special State of the Internet report. The report details the record-sized attack against KrebsOnSecurity.com in September, the largest such assault it has ever mitigated. The attack on Sept. 20 was launched by just 24,000 systems infected with Mirai, mostly hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as digital video recorders and security cameras. Most of the traffic from those mega attacks in Q3 2016 were thanks to Mirai the now open-source malware family.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/akamai-on-the-record-krebsonsecurity-attack/