Alleged ‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Sought Media Spotlight, Got Indicted
Summary: A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, was indicted in Alaska on two counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for using malware to damage computers between August and November 2017, charges reportedly tied to the Satori botnet. Satori, also called Masuta, is a Mirai variant that infected hundreds of thousands of routers and IoT devices, and the accused allegedly operated under the handle Nexus Zeta, which repeatedly contacted KrebsOnSecurity and researcher Troy Mursch seeking coverage.
Bottom line: Satori's operator estimated the botnet at 300,000 to 500,000 infected devices, and ProxyPipe reported mitigating attacks around 270 gigabits in volume, a scale that turns unpatched routers into a standing DDoS capability.
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