Paras Jha, 22, sentenced to six months of home incarceration, five years of parole and 2,500 hours of community service. Jha had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act by launching a series of DDoS attacks from November 2014 to September 2016 against Rutgers University. Mirai was malware built to target 64 default or hard-coded credentials built into dozens of internet of things devices, including inexpensive, widely used digital video recorders, wireless cameras and routers. The botnet functioned in part as a gigantic internet traffic routing proxy network.”]
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