The Mirai botnet has swollen to nearly 500,000 IoT compromised devices since source code for the malware was released at the start of October.
The figures, taken from a new analysis by telco Level3, are a particular concern because Mirai was made up of only around 125K devices when it was abused to direct a 620 Gbps flood at the website of cybercrime sleuth Brian Krebs. ®