[Desustorm]

This is absolutely fascinating - and stunning that it only took ~90 seconds to be infected. Turns out the source code is... open source:

https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/6a5941be6...

[arkadiyt]

Just to clarify it's not published by the author - the author got hacked and their source leaked.

[stcredzero]

Well, crap, you had the same thing when RedHat 7 was new. new RedHat 6 installs that went online were getting pwned in just a few minutes. The exploit scripts were open source even then.