Trick or threat? How zombie IoT devices surprised the internet

“Trick or treeeat!” Hearing kids yell that at your front door means one thing: if you don’t give them candy, you can count on being the target of some rather mean jokes.

Compared to that, millions of routers, security cameras and other IoT (Internet of Things) devices that knocked on the door of Dyn DNS a week before Halloween didn’t offer any such option. Instead, they formed one giant zombie army with a single malicious aim – to take down the internet and some of its most popular services.

Trick or threat? How zombie IoT devices surprised the internet