The entire internet infrastructure of the African nation of Liberia is distributed by the same weapon used to cause the historic cyberattack just two weeks ago. Zack Whittaker reporting in ZDNet: "This week, another Mirai botnet, known as Botnet 14, began targeting a small, little-known African country, sending it almost entirely offline each time. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont ... said that the attack was one of the largest capacity botnets ever seen. One transit provider said the attacks were over 500Gbps in size. Beaumont said that given the volume of traffic, it 'appears to be the owned by the actor which attacked Dyn'. ... An attack of that size is enough to flatten even a large network – or ... a small country."
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