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Topic: DDoS

Mirai Botnet #14: 1 Million German customers disrupted, Liberia taken off line and now the culprit has been convicted

January 12, 2019
The huge Mirai Botnet #14 IoT botnet attacks were successfully stopped and sinkholed by the German BKA and The Shadowserver Foundation, and the actor behind them was identified, arrested and prosecuted in both Germany (with the BKA) and the UK (with the NCA). Sentencing details were made public in the UK today.