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Blame the Internet of Things for Destroying the Internet Today | Motherboard

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/blame-the-internet-of-things-for-destroying-the-internet-today?utm_source=mbtwitter A massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things devices has been implicated in the cyberattack that caused a significant internet outage on Friday. The botnet, which is powered by the malware known as Mirai, is in part responsible for the attack that intermittently knocked some popular websites offline, according to Level 3 Communications, one