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The Mirai Botnet Was The Result Of Minecraft Haters

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Brian Karas
Jan 18, 2017
IPVM

Brian Krebs, whose site was taken down by the Mirai Botnet in September 2016, spent the last few months trying to figure out who was ultimately responsible for Mirai, and why it was launched. His conclusion: A Student At Rutgers, and The Minecraft Economy.

It is a long, but interesting, read.

 

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Oleksiy Zayonchkovskyy
Jan 19, 2017
IPVMU Certified

Great story!

And as always bad guys are captured because they starting to grow God inside themselves and forget about selfprotection in addition to laziness and not creating complete separate personalities including e-mail )).

Good article to promote NG firewalls even for home use to protect both infection from hosts and infected devices from the other world.  

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Kyle Folger
Jan 23, 2017
IPVMU Certified

I just found this after searching to make sure it wasn't posted already on here. Obviously the IPVM search saved me from duplicating a published post. I just read the article after finding it posted on another site. It's a very good and interesting read. It is long and it's truly amazing how these things play out. It all seems rather pointless to carry out these attacks.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1
Jan 24, 2017

Considering how much money was lost during the down time of the servers due to the DDoS Attacks I would say they had very well defined objective. I am more curious about how he was using Mirai to kill off Q-Bot than anything else. 

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