[6] The top countries infected by the malware were Iran, Brazil, Vietnam, Russia and Turkey, followed by India, Pakistan, Italy and Taiwan.
[9] Later in April 2017, Hajime generated large media coverage as it appeared to be in competition with Mirai.
[10] This led to a number of reports which compared and noted that it appeared to have a similar purpose to Linux.Wifatch.
[12] Hand written assembly code specifically for several platforms was also discovered by researchers as well.
[17] The message left on systems compromised by Hajime displayed on terminals is shown below.