Hackers could ‘bring down the internet’ using this terrifyingly cheap cyber-weapon

Huge internet attacks could soon become commonplace as criminals can now buy weapons capable of causing total digital meltdown for shockingly cheap prices, it has been revealed.

After an enormous cyber-attack on Friday, experts have issued a terrifying warning about the grim power of "botnets" made up of thousands of hacked computers or devices.

Hi-tech hoodlums are now hacking the 'Internet of Things' (IOT), which refers to smart devices or anything that has connectivity via the internet.

The IoT targets used to help with Friday's attack were recently revealed to be DVR CCTV cameras, which are cameras with an internet connection.

A Chinese electronics company has recently come forward to reveal that its products inadvertently played a huge role in the cyber attack on Friday.

Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology admitted its DVRs were partly to blame for the attack due to their weak default passwords and security vulnerabilities.

A malware known as Mirai has been used to take advantage of these vulnerabilities by attacking devices and using them as 'bots' in DDoS attacks.

RSA, a large security firm in the US, was able to find a number of hackers advertising access to an enormous IoT botnet on a criminal forum.

These bots were put up for sale with the seller claiming they would be able to generate one terabit of traffic, which would make it the world's largest DDoS attack ever.

The prices of these bots came in as little as $4,600 for 50,000 bots and $7,500 for 100,000.