Open-source is a wonderful thing, but perhaps not when it comes to malware – at least for Deutsche Telekom, which has come under fire from an adapted form of Mirai that went hunting for their consumer broadband WiFi routers. It’s the first sign of a looming debacle for CPE providers, and one that could seriously harm operator reputations. Now, hopefully, Deutsche Telekom (DT) has the ability to remotely push software and firmware updates to the devices, to help mitigate against this attack in future. The lack of an OTA update option was one of the main reasons why Mirai took off in the IoT, as it was hijacking devices with poor default credentials that were often hard-coded to the device…