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Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

December 13, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Akamai, anna-senpai, bitcoin, Breadcrumbs, click fraud, Dalton Norman, Daniel Kaye, exfocus, google, IoT botnet, Josiah White, justice department, Minecraft, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, OVH, Paras Jha, Project Shield, Rutgers University DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men 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).

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How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity

February 3, 2017 admin anna-senpai, Ars Technica, Damian Menscher, Dan Goodin, ddos, denial-of-service attacks, google, IoT, Mirai worm, Other, Project Shield

The third week of September 2016 was a dark and stormy one for KrebsOnSecurity. Wave after wave of huge denial-of-service attacks flooded this site, forcing me to pull the plug on it until I could secure protection from further assault. The site resurfaced three days later under the aegis of Google’s Project Shield, an initiative which seeks to protect journalists and news sites from being censored by these crippling digital sieges. Damian Menscher, a Google security engineer with whom I worked very closely on the migration to Project Shield, spoke publicly for the first time this week about the unique challenges involved in protecting a small site like this one from very large, sustained and constantly morphing attacks.

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Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

January 23, 2017 admin Allison Nixon, Ammar Zuberi, anime, anna-senpai, applej4ck, BASHLITE, BlazingFast, bulletproof hoster, CJ Sculti, datawagon, ddos, ddos-for-hire, dox, dreadiscool, exfocus, Fastreturn, Fracisco Dias, Frantech, Golang, Hackforums, Hypixel, Incapsula, Jesse Wu, Josiah White, lelddos, LiteSpeed, Minecraft, Minetime, Mirai Nikki, Namecentral, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, ogmemes123123@gmail.com, Other, p1st0, Paras Jha, Pierre Lamy, ProTraf, Protraf Solutions, ProxyPipe, Qbot, Richard Stallman, Robert Coelho, Rutgers University DDoS, Supermicro, SWATting, switchnet.io, vDos, Verisign, Vyp0r

On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet for use in large cyberattacks. Roughly a week after that assault, the individual(s) who launched that attack — using the name “Anna Senpai” — released the source code for Mirai, spawning dozens of copycat attack armies online. After months of digging, KrebsOnSecurity is now confident to have uncovered Anna Senpai’s real-life identity, and the identity of at least one co-conspirator who helped to write and modify the malware.