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‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

Summary: Kenneth Currin Schuchman, a 21-year-old from Vancouver, Wash., pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusions for his role in the Satori botnet, which harnessed roughly 100,000 hacked IoT devices between July 2017 and October 2018. Schuchman and co-conspirators nicknamed "Vamp" and "Drake" built Satori from leaked Mirai source code and later variants named Okiru and Masuta that infected up to 700,000 systems, and he created a new botnet variant while on supervised release after his August 2018 indictment.

What you should know: The maximum penalty for the single count is 10 years and $250,000, but his plea deal recommends a sentence at the low end of the guideline range - and the co-conspirator identified as Satori's principal coder, Vamp, is described as a U.K. resident who was a minor during the 2015 TalkTalk hack.

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