The Mirai Botnet crippled major hubs of the internet in October 2016 with a series of distributed denial of service attacks deployed at a speed and volume that security experts had never seen before. The big innovation was using infected “internet of things” devices that consumers and manufacturers routinely fail to secure like home surveillance cameras or web-enabled kitchen appliances.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2017/12/27/minecraft-brought-internet/