Looming Digital Black Swan? New, Rapidly Growing Internet-Of-Things (IoT) Botnet — Threatens To Take Down Entire Internet; 10,000 Devices Per Day Being Infected’ +2 Million Devices Already Infected

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Cyber security researchers are growing increasingly concerned that a new Internet-Of-Things (IoT) botnet could pose a threat to take down the entire Internet. Wang Wei reported Friday, October 20, 2017, on the website the HackerNews.com, that just a year after/2016 the Mirai malware burst onto the scene, causing widespread Internet outages by launching massive Distributed-Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) attacks — a new IoT botnet has researchers worried about a potential digital Black Swan-type event.