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Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye

July 28, 2017 admin Agence France Presse, BestBuy, Daniel Kaye, GovRAT, Liberia, Mirai, Other

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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Who is the GovRAT Author and Mirai Botmaster ‘Bestbuy’?

July 5, 2017 admin BestBuy, Binaryvision.co.il, BlueCoat, danielkaye02@gmail.com, Deutsche Telekom, GovRAT, infoarmor, Mirai, Other, parkajackets@gmail.com, popopret, spdr, spdr01@gmail.com, spider man, Symantec, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:25:14 +0000

In February 2017, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested a 29-year-old U.K. man on suspicion of knocking more than 900,000 Germans offline in an attack tied to Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves Internet of Things (IoT) devices like security cameras and Internet routers for use in large-scale cyberattacks. Investigators haven’t yet released the man’s name, but news reports suggest he may be better known by the hacker handle “Bestbuy.” This post will follow a trail of clues back to one likely real-life identity of Bestbuy.