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on Wednesday October 31 2018, @03:58AM
from the you-thought-your-student-debt-was-bad dept.
from the you-thought-your-student-debt-was-bad dept.
Brian Krebs has posted in his blog that "the convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution".
He avoided jail time because he and his two conspirators cooperated fully with the investigation. The Mirai malware peaked in the autumn of 2016. It tested devices against a table of more than 60 common factory-set default user names and passwords for Internet of Things products, using those credentials to log in and take over the vulnerable devices and exploit their resources for powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks
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In the war of wits, he's unarmed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:01PM
fully autonomous? So it collects and spends the ransom itself?
But it is possible: most of the classic worms and such were autonomous. But anything new tries to be more and ends up with something trackable: an account to wire money to, a C&C server, or something.