Dec 19th 2017
Tech Break 4638
Mirai Botnet Creators Just Wanted to Win at Minecraft
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Steve Gibson
Mirai Botnet Made for Minecraft
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We now know the whole backstory behind Mirai, the most sophisticated botnet to date which was responsible for originating the many largest, most potent and devastating DDoS bandwidth attacks ever seen. It was three Minecraft playing college kids running a profitable Minecraft server who wanted to blast competing Minecraft hosting servers off the Net in order to obtain their competitors' user bases.
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https://twit.tv/sn/642
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