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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

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. If the police find source code on a hacker’s devices, they can claim that they “downloaded it from the Internet.” And they did.

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