Collaborate Disseminate
Why a business spat resulted in Liberia falling off the internet, how the US Government shutdown is impacting website security, and the perplexing world of extreme IoT devices.
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The British professional hacker behind the 2016 Mirai attack on Lonestar, Liberia’s largest telecom company, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, announced the UK National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye, also known as “BestBuy&… Continue reading British Hacker-for-Hire Goes to Prison for Liberian Telecom, Deutsche Telekom Mirai Attack
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity identified U.K. citizen Daniel Kaye as the likely real-life identity behind a hacker responsible for clumsily wielding a powerful botnet built on Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale online attacks. Today, a German court issued a suspended sentence for Kaye, who now faces related cybercrime charges in the United Kingdom. Continue reading Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye
A story spread like wildfire across the world’s media claiming that the small West African country of Liberia had been blasted off the internet by a massive DDoS attack.
But don’t be too quick to believe everything you read in the papers…
Continue reading Did the Mirai botnet knock Liberia offline? Not so much
On Thursday, we compiled a story based on research published by a British security expert reporting that some cyber criminals are apparently using Mirai Botnet to conduct DDoS attacks against the telecommunication companies in Liberia, a small African … Continue reading More Insights On Alleged DDoS Attack Against Liberia Using Mirai Botnet
Note — We have published an updated article on what really happened behind the alleged DDoS attack against Liberia using Mirai botnet.
Someone is trying to take down the whole Internet of a country, and partially succeeded, by launching massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of insecure IoT devices infected by the Mirai malware.
It all started early October when
Continue reading Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country
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