Someone is controlling a powerful enough botnet to do this.
How powerfull is it really ? What else can it do ? Was this just a message or a test ? Or both ?
What would happen if they would point it to google's nameservers ?
What should we expect next ?
[1] http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/article.php/... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFJzu0AFDpU (Dyn Engineer gave the talk) [3 ]http://www.rcrwireless.com/20160408/telecom-software/using-s...
I was thinking at this as well. It's probably under active development right now, if not already live for some.
According to research from security firm Level3 Communications, the Bashlight botnet currently currently is responsible for enslaving nearly a million IoT devices and is in direct competition with botnets based on Mirai. “Both [are] going after the same IoT device exposure and, in a lot of cases, the same devices,”
So, roughly 1 million IoT devices. And the source code for Mirai is freely available, so there's a DIY kit for anyone to use.