The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme | WIRED
THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet-powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers-that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasn’t anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was Minecraft.
The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme | WIRED
The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme | WIRED