#iot botnets

IoT Botnets Are Growing—and Up for Hire

The army of Internet-connected devices being corralled and controlled to take down online services is active, growing—and up for grabs.

Internet of things botnets—collections of devices hacked to work with one another to send debilitating surges of data to servers—have been blamed for several recent Internet failures. Most notably, the servers of domain name system host Dyn were taken down last…