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Boston, Massachusetts - An individual, formerly a juvenile, pleaded guilty to committing acts of federal juvenile delinquency in relation to a cyberattack that caused massive disruption to the Internet in October 2016.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray of the District of New Hampshire, and Special Agent in Charge Joseph R. Bonavolonta of the FBI’s Boston Division made the announcement.
According to the plea agreement, the individual conspired to commit computer fraud and abuse by operating a botnet and by intentionally damaging a computer. Because the individual was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offense, the individual’s identity is being withheld pursuant to the Juvenile Delinquency Act, see 18 U.S.C. § 5031, et seq. The guilty plea took place in a closed proceeding before Chief Judge Landya B. McCafferty in the D
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.
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