The author of the Mirai malware has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the systems of Rutgers University.
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Mirai Author Gets House Arrest for DDoS Attacks on University
The author of the Mirai malware has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. The post Mirai Author Gets House Arrest for DDoS Attacks on University appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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