Talk about an IoT

[SimonV]

"Someone has a botnet with capabilities we haven't seen before," McKeay said. "We looked at the traffic coming from the attacking systems, and they weren't just from one region of the world or from a small subset of networks — they were everywhere."

There are some indications that this attack was launched with the help of a botnet that has enslaved a large number of hacked so-called "Internet of Things," (IoT) devices — routers, IP cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs) that are exposed to the Internet and protected with weak or hard-coded passwords.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/

[deanwebb]

Imagine what would have happened if they had gotten those devices to use reflection and amplification techniques. OUCH.