It's hilarious they reported on his honeypots :) Kinda surprised I haven't gotten similar letters. I've gotten infected so many times. Amazon certainly noticed my cloud honeypot instances. On Feb 10, 2017 5:48 AM, "Marco Slater" <marco@marcoslater.com> wrote:
As an ISP, scan your customers netrange, and notify customers with known vulnerable devices. With regards to the current Mirai threat, theres only a handful of devices that are the most critical importance. IE, biggest fraction of the infected host pie.
Virgin Media in the UK do this for Mirai-infected or susceptible devices already.
What they send out: https://twitter.com/2sec4u/status/825337376692121601
Quite interesting approach. If more consumers were aware of this, they may do something about it.. although.. people are lazy. :(