Hajime botnet is nearly 300,000 strong, making it a latent threat nearly as powerful as the notorious Mirai botnet that devastated high-profile websites last fall. Hajime is more impressive than Mirai and may be harder to stop if its creators ever decide to put it to malicious use. The author of the botnet has left no clues, or at least none that Kaspersky picked up on, about what the purpose of Hajime will show itself. The botnet uses BitTorrent 2.0 to communicate, making Hajime a peer-to-peer botnet.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3192898/next-gen-iot-botnet-hajime-nearly-300k-strong.html