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Satori Botnet Creator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison

Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 22, has been sentenced to 13 months in prison for developing Mirai botnet variants that compromised hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide. The Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets are variants to Mirai, which was used in the 2016 DDoS attacks that targeted DNS provider Dyn and caused several well-known websites including Twitter, Spotify and Netflix to go dark for hours. New Mirai variants continue to pop up, taking down technology such as routers, internet-based companies such as DNS providers and business sectors.

Source: https://threatpost.com/satori-botnet-creator-prison/156947/

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