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Krebs Pinpoints the Possible Person behind the Mirai Botnet

The Mirai botnet caused serious troubles in the fall of 2017 beginning with the hijacking of numerous IoT devices to launch a historically massive Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) attack on KrebsOnSecurity's site in September, and then removing large portions of the internet within a month. Who is responsible for creating the malware? Brian Krebs, security researcher set out to discover the source of the malware after his site went down. He found several sources and evidence that point to Paras Jha (a Rutgers University student who is also the owner of DDoS protection company Protraf Solutions).



About a week after attacking the security website the person who launched the attack, who went by Anna Senpai's name, released the source code of the Mirai botnet, which prompted other copycat assaults. It also gave Krebs with the first clue in their long-running search to find Anna Senpai's true identity. Krebs created a glossary of terms and names that are cross-referenced, as well as a partial relational map.



The full story is admittedly long, clocking in at over 8000 words, but worth the time to learn how botnet wranglers earn money by deploying zombie device armies on innocent targets. just another wordpress site The sources that led Krebs to Anna Senpai's identity were involved in using botnets on behalf of dark clients, releasing the malware on security companies that guard lucrative Minecraft servers that host thousands of players. When their online gaming is hindered -- say, by repeated and annoying DDoS attacks players quit servers with a reason to move to whichever security provider can provide protection...in this case, providers that arranged for botnet attacks in first place.



Krebs source claims that Krebs' security site was attacked in the botnet war by it divulging information in September, which led to the arrests of the two hackers behind the Israeli "vDos" attack service. Anna Senpai was believed to have been paid by vengeful clients to unleash Mirai onto KrebsOnSecurity, cementing their interest in the security firm.


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