Hackers used Mirai Botnet 14 to shut down the internet of an entire country.
Mirai Botnet is an open source botnet and can be used by anyone.
Botnet 14, a Mirai botnet was responsible for knocking down an entire country offline.
However, the target was a small one, Liberia which has a population around approximately 4.5 million.
Kevin Beaumont, a security researcher was the first one to notice this attack.
He claimed that this is one of the largest capacity botnets ever recorded in Medium.
Mirai Botnet uses insecure IoT devices to drive a massive amount of traffic to an online service or website.
Now the same botnet had knocked an entire Liberian internet offline.
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