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The next internet-crashing botnet is slowly starting to wake up. Since late December, a botnet known as Satori has been infecting new endpoints and generally showing the signs of a disaster waiting to happen. How should you brace yourself for the next large-scale DDoS attack?

A Dormant Botnet Reawakens

The last time we saw the Satori botnet was in 2016-back when it was still called Mirai. We know that two years is a long time in information security, but the Mirai botnet incident is hard to forget. Using millions of infected IoT devices, such as routers, security cameras, and smart thermostats, the Mirai botnet was able to crash the fiber backbone for the almost the entire U.S. eastern seaboard. The attack shut down the internet for hours.

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