To have a clearer understanding and conscience about the dangerous impact of insecure IoT, let's dive into one of the catastrophic attacks that hit million of devices and users. It is Mirai Botnet. Mirai in Japanese means the future. It used millions of compromised devices to perform distributed Denial of Service (DoS) at about 665 GBs against many businesses and service providers, including DNS, Twitter, PayPal, reddit, Brian Krebs website, and many other well-known websites:
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