Intro to Cybersecurity - Mirai Botnet

1) How does the Mirai botnet identify or find devices to infect? 2) What service does it look for initially? 3) Is Mirai a DDoS-style botnet? 4) How does an attacker control the bots? 5) Does Mirai scan for additional ports? Which ones? 6) Does Mirai scan for additional protocols? Which ones? 7) What types of devices was Mirai infected? 8) How did the researchers determine what types of devices were being infected? 9) How many bots were found making up Mirai by the researchers and were there multiple botnet operators? 10) What are some of the lessons learned from Mirai for IoT devices?