[Cryptography] Anyone else seeing an uptick in infected IoT devices? New botnet?

[Jerry Leichter]

> In the last few weeks I've seen something close to a doubling of the
> number of botnet-infected IoT devices at sites around the SF Bay Area.
> Or maybe it's just a doubling of the rate at which people notice them,
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Anybody else seeing this?
This is a global phenomenon.  Since Mirai was released, there's been a burst of activity in the IoT botnet world - first with multiple teams fighting to build botnets using the same code then with adaptations to other devices.  Brian Krebs tends to keep up with this stuff.  See "New Mirai Worm Knocks 900K Germans Offline" (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/new-mirai-worm-knocks-900k-germans-offline/) and "Researchers Find Fresh Fodder for IoT Attack Cannons" (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/researchers-find-fresh-fodder-for-iot-attack-cannons/) for two recent examples.
                                                        -- Jerry