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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

In April 2000, MafiaBoy was arrested and charged, and in January 2001 he pled guilty to 58 charges of denial-of-service attacks. In May 2016, Paras reached out to Josiah White. By the beginning of August 2016, the trio had completed the first version of their botnet malware. Rutgers refused to budge.

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