Mirai

Affected product: home routers and IP cameras

Type: botnet

Estimate date of origin: Aug 2016

Impact: Biggest DDoS attacks

Recommended action: n/a

Threat Group: 3 young hackers (Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman) were the original authors.

Noteworthy: The author of Mirai released the source code in an attempt to confuse the investigator. This led to countless Mirai clones which caused even more damaging DDoS attacks. Mira was responsible for the biggest DDoS attacks. Millions of home routers are compromised.

References

Wired: The Mirai Confessions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)