The open-source Mirai malware that shocked the technology sector a few weeks ago has been studied by Akamai in its latest State of the Internet report. It’s bad news for the world, as Akamai suggests that adapted versions of Mirai will embrace the more common reflective DDoS attack vectors to cripple web infrastructure. With the report, Akamai has put numbers on the problem. Somewhat shockingly, just 24,000 IP addresses were used in the monster attack that brought Mirai to the fore – mostly consisting of compromised DVR players and connected IP cameras. This direct DDoS traffic is dangerous enough, but adding the reflective traffic of other botnets would create huge outages. Akamai concludes that the Mirai DDoS set a new…