The world will see (and just saw) an Internet zombie apocalypse
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Claims rapid escalation of volumetric attacks with Q2 peaks at 383 GB then Q3 hitting 1 TB peak attack and Akamai reporting 43% bot traffic on networks. Botnets built from dirt-cheap IoT chips under a dollar and consumer homes with 100+ devices fuel Mirai style infections that die off then revive after a power cycle, creating persistent “zombie” pools. Dyn suffers a major DDoS disruption for the first time in over 15 years while attackers chain multilayer vectors. Operational countermeasures focus on Mirai open-sourced realities and BGP announcements and hybrid ops planning.
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