The U.S. Justice Department unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai. Paras Jha and Josiah White were co-founders of Protraf Solutions LLC, a company that specialized in mitigating large-scale DDoS attacks. Jha, White and another person who also pleaded guilty to click fraud conspiracy charges a 21-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana named Dalton Norman leased access to their botnet for the purposes of earning fraudulent advertising revenue through click fraud activity.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/mirai-iot-botnet-co-authors-plead-guilty/