The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story | Wired
Date : 2023-11-14
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On October 21, 2016, the internet went down for millions of people as Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal and other major websites were hit by a massive cyberattack. The attack was carried out using a powerful web-attack tool called Mirai, which had been built by three young hackers named Josiah White, Paras Jha and Dalton Norman. In this article, Andy Greenberg tells the story of how these three young men became involved in the world of cybercrime, and how they came to build one of the most powerful and disruptive cyberattack tools of recent years
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