The small west African country of Liberia recently became an unlikely target for the Mirai botnet. The country apparently was struck by the same botnet that last month hit networking company Dyn, which supplies DNS services to Twitter and Spotify and many other popular websites. Security experts say hackers have taken control of millions of internet of things devices, such as CCTV cameras, digital video recorders and baby monitors, and infected them with DDoS attacks. The attacks against Liberian operators were short but made up of large bursts of traffic, he adds.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/liberia-latest-target-for-mirai-botnet-a-9499