How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters (Scott J. Shapiro/IEEE Spectrum)

Scott J. Shapiro / IEEE Spectrum:

How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters  —  First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives.  But they usually just gripe.

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