Mirai Botnet, Case Closed

Wired has published an article detailing the life the Mirai Botnet. The one really noteworthy aspect of this is that it appears to be a complete story. It's not so much the technical aspect. But the botnet writers were caught, prosecuted by the feds and plead guilty. This is the story of it.

For those who don't remember, Mirai Botnet is the largest botnet ever doing the largest DDOS attacks so far. It levered IoT devices like cameras and other devices on the internet.

Article: https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/

 

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