Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reports it was knocked offline for nearly four days on September 22, 2016 by a Mirai botnet built from hacked IoT devices, and that roughly a week later the attacker using the name "Anna-Senpai" released Mirai's source code, spawning dozens of copycat attack armies. The article traces Mirai to earlier IoT botnet variants including Bashlite, Gafgyt, Qbot, Remaiten and Torlus, and describes the lelddos group's DDoS attacks on Minecraft servers and DDoS-protection providers.
Bottom line: Mirai's code was released publicly, so the capability that took this site down for four days became available to anyone - and the article notes a single 2014 attack on ProxyPipe reached 300 Gbps from a botnet of more than 100,000 servers, with a later attack on Krebs hitting 620 Gbps.
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