The interdependent parts of this economy include agreed - upon systems for testing product (
a sector of a botnet to confirm the available bandwidth, a few credit cards from a batch to make sure they're real and to check the balances), money - back guarantees, nicely designed interfaces, partnership programs, and, charmingly, free champagne for closing a deal together.
A variant
of the Mirai
botnet is likely to have been used in attacks against one or more companies in the financial
sector in January, the security firm Recorded Future claims, pointing out that this is the first time a
botnet made up
of Internet
of Things devices has been used since Mirai.