IoT Botnet Infection & DDoS

Smart cameras, home routers and DVRs are computers too — and millions of them still run factory-default logins. This simulation visualizes how a Mirai-style worm scans for exactly those devices, silently recruits them into a botnet, and then can point that combined bandwidth at a single target in a distributed denial-of-service attack. Turn up weak-credential share and scan rate to watch the infection spread through the device population, or turn up firmware patch rate to see how quickly hardening devices can shrink the botnet back down — the same trade-off real network operators manage every day.