That’s a misreading of what it means. The botnet averages 14,000 routers + IoT devices a day, not new devices per day. Every day, devices cycle in and out of these botnets, so their count is always in flux.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks agoWell reading the article, it says the botnet is infecting 14,000 routers a day. Not that there are only 14k infected routers in the world.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
It says both things
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