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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

His parents happily indulged this passion, buying him a computer and providing him with unrestricted Internet access. On 8 September 2016, the FBI’s Anchorage and New Haven cyber units teamed up and served a search warrant in Connecticut on the member of PoodleCorp who ran the C2 that controlled all its botnets. And they did.

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