Starting in September 2016, a spree of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks temporarily crippled Krebs on Security [46], OVH [43], and Dyn [36]. The ini-
tial attack on Krebs exceeded 600 Gbps in volume [46] — among the largest on record. Remarkably, this overwhelming traffic was sourced from hundreds of thousands of
some of the Internet’s least powerful hosts — Internet of Things (IoT) devices — under the control of a new botnet named Mirai.

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