Mirai, a fast-spreading worm that knocked 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers offline earlier this week, has also caused hiccups for broadband customers in the U.K. TalkTalk and Post Office have developed fixes for the latest version of Mirai. Mirai has been blamed for distributed denial-of-service attacks that prevented access to Twitter, PayPal and Spotify. As many as 40 million routers, largely clustered in South America and Europe, could be affected, experts say.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/fast-spreading-mirai-worm-disrupts-uk-broadband-providers-a-9570