Sucuri researcher Daniel Cid found that it only took an attacker 12 minutes to compromise an IPv4 server and shortly after, use it to launch a DDoS attack on an unsuspecting victim while performing an experiment to see how long it would take to brute force compromise IPv4-only and IPv6-only servers.

We all are aware of what a botnet is, and most of us know the damage that it can cause when some bad actor takes over many of our corporate endpoints. But what we might not know is how easy it is to create botnets.