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Mirai strikes again, leaving 1 million users offline

December 2, 2016

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When security experts warned us that Mirai-infected connected devices would strike again, and 10-fold, they weren’t kidding. Almost 1 million internet users in Europe couldn’t get online this weekend following an organized cyberattack launched by 900,000 home routers exploited by Mirai malware, Deutsche Telekom confirmed.

The German internet provider announced that only some 5 percent out of its 20 million customer pool was directly affected by the botnet attack.

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