Former Rutgers University Student and Two Other Men Plead Guilty to 2016 Mirai Botnet Attacks

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Former Rutgers University Student and Two Other Men Plead Guilty to 2016 Mirai Botnet Attacks

By CircleID Reporter
December 13, 2017, 7:35 pm PST Views: 19,780 Add Comment

A New Jersey man was one of the three who pled guilty to hacking charges and creating the massive Mirai botnet attacks which spread via vulnerabilities in IoT devices causing massive DDoS attacks. Brian Krebs, security reporter who was first to identify two of the three men involved, today reports: “The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men [updated to three men later] first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called ‘Internet of Things’ devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site). ... In addition, the Mirai co-creators pleaded guilty to charges of using their botnet to conduct click fraud — a form of online advertising fraud that will cost Internet advertisers more than $16 billion this year, according to estimates from ad verification company Adloox.”

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