[yashinm92]

This was a mixed traffic botnet. There are speculations that a large chunk was from compromised IoT devices.

[matt_wulfeck]

How many IoT devices are out on the public internet at the moment?

and for the existing IOT devices, are they the same thing, or were different exploits used for different devices?

[yashinm92]

How many on the public internet? Too many. Here are close to 100k IP cameras on the public internet: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ip+camera

Again, the speculation that it is IoT devices is unfortunately just that. However massive compromise of internet connected embedded device is not new: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

[Spare_account]

Are there any good quality articles you can link to discussing this?

[yashinm92]

Good quality? I'm not sure. Just speculation on this one post: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...

[abricot]

A botnet of coffee machines, thermostats and Teslas? :D

[dharma1]

Got a source for that? Thanks

[yashinm92]

Just this link: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...

I'm a bit concerned about the reliability of that report since there are no strong proofs for their claim.

[dharma1]

Interesting. Here's a bit more on IoT botnets

http://blog.level3.com/security/attack-of-things/

Good luck updating those embedded linux devices, or even alerting the people who own them