The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 19, 201811m 32s
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Show Notes
The three college-age defendants behind the creation of the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet in the fall of 2016 with unprecedentedly powerful distributed denial of service attacks—will stand in an Alaska courtroom Tuesday and ask for a novel ruling from a federal judge: They hope to be sentenced to work for the FBI.
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