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I refer to a German major news article where I first read about this, they had the details that I just re-listed. The link to the English site I then searched myself, or it was linked in that article.

In the German news they adi that it has been severla attacks on different places, that the attacks lasted for longer time, and probably were only test runs to demonstrate the usability of internet-of-things infrastriucture for major botnet attacks and DDoS attacks. There have been other incidents of this pattern - probable test runs for abusing internet of things home infrastructure for the real attack operation - across several places in the West in recent months.

This internet-of-things is a security nightmare, it seems. Makes the vulnerability of the already existing internet infrastructure even much worse. Interesting for intel services, military, and ordinary criminals.