Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 22, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those systems to carry out large scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against various online service and targets. He has also been ordered to serve a term of 18 months of community confinement and drug treatment, following his release from prison and a three-year term of supervised release. Many variants emerged on the Internet following the leak of Mirai’s source code online in 2016.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/ddos-botnet-hacker-jailed.html