KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of a record-breaking 620Gbps volumetric DDoS attack. A few days later, the same type of botnet was used in a 1Tbps attack targeting the French webhoster OVH. A user called anna-senpai posted the source code and instructions for building the bot and CnC involved in the attacks on hackforums.net and named it Mirai. Mirai bots are self-replicating and use a central service to control the loading and prevent multiple bots being loaded on already harvested devices.”]
Source: https://blog.radware.com/security/2016/10/busybox-botnet-mirai/