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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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The VDoS gang members had been only 14 years old when they started to offer DDoS services from Israel in 2012. The Mirai botnet exploited vulnerable Internet of Things devices, such as Web-connected video cameras, ones that supported Telnet, an outdated system for logging in remotely. government sites, and Minecraft servers.

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