How should I understand the word "hijack" in network security?
In Cloudflare's page about the Mirai botnet, there is a sentence:
The Mirai botnet employed a hundred thousand hijacked IoT devices to bring down Dyn.
Does the word "hijacked" mean "be controlled"? or "infected"?
be-controlled
orinfected
? Hijacked is a generic term for some sort of "compromised by malicious party". This isn't the sort of case where there is one definition. It is used in many different ways by different people