IBM has recently discovered that the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has been actively installing Bitcoin mining code on some victims' computers. This botnet has been used in some of the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks such as the takedown of Dyn DNS, which experts say was the largest of its kind in history. Also read: Lots of Data in Cambridge University’s...
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