Mirai Botnet Authors Avoid Jail Time
Summary: A court in Alaska sentenced three men - Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman - to five years probation, 2,500 hours of community service and $127,000 in restitution for authoring and using the Mirai malware, which enslaves poorly secured IoT devices like cameras, DVRs and routers for large-scale attacks. The Justice Department recommended leniency citing "extraordinary cooperation," and Jha still faces sentencing in New Jersey for Mirai attacks on Rutgers University, where he was enrolled as a computer science student.
Why it matters: The authors of a botnet that sidelined KrebsOnSecurity for nearly four days and spawned dozens of copycat Mirai variants received no jail time, and Jha has since landed a part-time job at a cybersecurity firm - a deterrent signal worth weighing against the damage their malware caused.
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