The deluge, directed at an unnamed Cloudflare customer, came from 13,000 IoT devices infected by a variant of Mirai, a potent piece of malware with a long history of delivering massive DDoSes of ...

The activity originated from a Mirai-variant botnet. "The attack lasted only 80 seconds and originated from over 13,000 IoT devices," Cloudflare's Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said in a report.

Researchers at Australian cyber security firm CyberCX have issued a warning regarding poorly secured, Chinese-made IoT devices in the wake of hackers compromising an internet-connected doorbell and ...