Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:13:42 +0000
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity identified U.K. citizen Daniel Kaye as the likely real-life identity behind a hacker responsible for clumsily wielding a powerful botnet built on Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale online attacks. Today, a German court issued a suspended sentence for Kaye, who now faces related cybercrime charges in the United Kingdom.
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