EPISODE · Sep 19, 2018 · 11 MIN
The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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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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The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
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