via [1]: "Dyn says today's DDoS are in part being caused by Mirai botnet, which recently caused record-sized attack [2]" [1] https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/

via [1]: "Dyn says today's DDoS are in part being caused by Mirai botnet, which recently caused record-sized attack [2]" [1] https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/789562789920636928 https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/789562789920636928 [2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botnet-mirai-released/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botn... tl;dr: a substantial part of this attack is a botnet of IoT devices.