A young hacker has pleaded guilty to taking part in an effort to bring down Sony s Playstation gaming platform by hijacking "internet of things" devices, Justice Department officials announced.
Juvenile Pleads Guilty to 2016 DNS Attack
Mirai botnet was used to target Sony in an attack that took down DynDNS and a number of its notable customers.
An individual, unnamed because they were a juvenile at the time of the crime, has pleaded guilty to committing acts of federal juvenile delinquency relating to a cyberattack that caused massive disruption to the Internet in October 2016. Sentencing is scheduled for January 7, 2021.
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According to the guilty plea, the individual conspired to commit computer fraud by running a botnet. The botnet launched DDoS attacks against victims, most of whom were online gamers or online game platforms.
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A map tracking outages resulting from the October 2016 DDoS attack on Dyn (Source: downdetector.com)
One of those responsible for the massive Mirai-based DDoS attack launched in October 2016 that targeted domain name resolver Dyn and knocked Amazon, PayPal, Spotify, Twitter and others offline has pleaded guilty to federal charges, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The individual, who was not named due to being a juvenile when the offense was committed, pleaded guilty Wednesday to committing acts of federal juvenile delinquency related to committing computer fraud and abuse by operating a botnet and by intentionally damaging a computer, according to the Justice Department.
Teen who shook the Internet in 2016 pleads guilty to DDoS attacks
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One of the operators behind a Mirai botnet pleaded guilty to their involvement in a huge DDoS attack that caused a massive Internet disruption during October 2016.
Multiple high-profile websites and online services including Amazon, PayPal, Visa, Netflix, the PlayStation Network, and Airbnb were taken down as a direct result of this DDoS attack.
The botnet, a variant of the Mirai botnet, was developed by the defendant with the help of others between roughly 2015 until November 2016, specifically for being used to target gaming platforms in DDoS attacks.
The conspirators used it to infect and convert Internet-connected video cameras, recorders, and other Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices into bots that were used as the army that powered the group s DDoS attacks.
More than four years after the Dyn cyberattack in 2016, we have a better idea of who was behind one of the most disruptive DDoS attacks in internet history..