News about botnets – millions of tainted Internet of Things devices being used to tandem to swamp targets with DDoS attack, as happened to Dyn last month – just keeps getting wilder.
An entire country, Liberia in west Africa, was targeted, reports Kevin Beaumont from Medium
A DDOS attack turned off the heat in buildings – in Finland. In winter. Finnish media story is here.
Smart light bulbs can be turned into a botnet quite easily- even from a nearby drone, reports The Verge.