HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET

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▶HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 15:47:01 No.837814 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

>"THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet---powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasn’t anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was Minecraft.

>It was a hard story to miss last year: In France last September, the telecom provider OVH was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack a hundred times larger than most of its kind. Then, on a Friday afternoon in October 2016, the internet slowed or stopped for nearly the entire eastern United States, as the tech company Dyn, a key part of the internet’s backbone, came under a crippling assault.

>As the 2016 US presidential election drew near, fears began to mount that the so-called Mirai botnet might be the work of a nation-state practicing for an attack that would cripple the country as voters went to the polls. The truth, as made clear in that Alaskan courtroom Friday---and unsealed by the Justice Department on Wednesday—was even stranger: The brains behind Mirai were a 21-year-old Rutgers college student from suburban New Jersey and his two college-age friends from outside Pittsburgh and New Orleans. All three—Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, respectively—admitted their role in creating and launching Mirai into the world.

>Originally, prosecutors say, the defendants hadn’t intended to bring down the internet---they had been trying to gain an advantage in the computer game Minecraft.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171214143332/https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/

▶Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 17:47:21 No.837857

/v/irgins strike again

▶Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 17:50:28 No.837858

I'm not reading through all that mouthbreather shit with phonefaggot formatting.

Who's Anna Senpai? Pajeet Jah? He was found out last year already. Poor opsec, stylometry and etc.

What happened to the botnet after? The devices are still unpatched, right? Why won't someone else launch an attack again? Why didn't they operate through Tor and third-party bootstraps not associated with their name?

>Its comparatively basic visual appeal---it has more in common with the first-generation videogames of the 1970s and 1980s than it does the polygon-intense lushness of Halo or Assassin’s Creed

>as well as servers hosting Microsoft Xbox Live and Playstation servers and those associated with the game Nuclear Fallout.

the fug

>Network engineers from multiple companies convened an always-running Slack channel to compare notes on Mirai. As Paine says, “It was real-time, we were using Slack, sharing, ‘Hey, I’m on this network seeing this, what are you seeing?’”

A bit of corporate product placement

▶Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 19:48:35 No.837913

OVH's DDOS protection is pretty good. The worst thing that happened was all connections were momenterrily dropped when the attack hit.

▶Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 21:00:32 No.837956

It has to be real, you can't even make up a cringy autistic story like that

▶Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 21:42:10 No.837973

oh my fucking God, don't get it from Wired you absolute idiot, get it from Krebs, the cybersec equivalent of a tabloid, at least -- you need to Fucking Stop.

▶Anonymous 12/14/17 (Thu) 21:49:13 No.837977

I like that the beginning is sensational, and almost like it was written by a different person who had no idea what the details are, but then they just tell the truth in long form.

They start with

>dangerous hackers create MOST SOPHISTICATED BOTNET EVER

>it could've destroyed the Internet

>they could've hijacked the election, RUSSIANS CONFIRMED

>they were trying to win at Minecraft

and then cut to

>it just guessed default passwords for shitty routers because normalfags are too retarded to change them

>they ran several different schemes, including but not limited to knocking out Minecraft server competitors, running clickfarms, and creating mafia-style DDoS "protection" schemes

>the most damaging thing they did themselves was take down Brian Krebs' website for shits and giggles

▶Anonymous 12/15/17 (Fri) 19:18:05 No.838468>>838472 >>838513

some skids bought a ddos service for minecraft, why is this news worthy?

▶Anonymous 12/15/17 (Fri) 19:22:42 No.838472

>>838468

That wouldn't be news worthy but it's also not what happened so maybe read what did happen or something

▶Anonymous 12/15/17 (Fri) 20:37:35 No.838508

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>maria botnet

>autistic /v/ minecrafters

wew

▶Anonymous 12/15/17 (Fri) 20:40:32 No.838513

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>>838468

Because it's a fucking botnet

▶Anonymous 12/15/17 (Fri) 21:35:03 No.838541

>your country depends on the internet

kys

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