OK, OK, MIRA-I DID IT: Botnet-building compsci kid comes clean A former New Jersey college student has copped to helping create and run the massive Mirai DDoS botnet. Paras Jha, 21, pleaded guilty this month in an Alaska district court to two counts [PDF, PDF] of conspiracy to commit "fraud and related activity in connection with computers." In plea deals with US prosecutors, unsealed …
So russian text strings in the Mirai code were nothing. “The Jester” (either another of those insufferable self-promoting "hats", of which color I dunno, or else a CIA op) had become all moist about that.
But Brian Krebs did good: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/
"Creating a company", eh? "Studying computer science", really? The correct action against such people is to send Serbian Muscle have a look-see and send the skilled haxxors nicely folded and ironed back to their mom's basement.
The worst thing is these guys will probably get hired after Club Fed because they are an "IT genius" in some PHB's deluded braincell.
The worst thing is these guys will probably get hired after Club Fed because they are an "IT genius" in some PHB's deluded braincell.
the american security clearance review/appeal documents for real individuals are publicly available, and from those I can safely assume that these guys will never in their lives get a job in IT security for any US gov agency. They don't care how good you are; if you're not completely 100% trustworthy you're out the door, especially in these post-snowden days
"Which is worse DDOS & click fraud or running huge paedo imagery websites for ages after uncovering them"
yeah, the grey areas of law enforcement. I'd like to look the other way, if the 'honeytrap' actually works. Otherwise maybe the high-up that authorized it needs a permanent vacation...
I can safely assume that these guys will never in their lives get a job in IT security for any US gov agency. They don't care how good you are; if you're not completely 100% trustworthy you're out the door
Meanwhile, I hear that US gov agency isn't 100% trustworthy. /Irony
The worst thing is these guys will probably get hired after Club Fed because they are an "IT genius" in some PHB's deluded braincell.
The best these guys can hope for after coming out of jail is a job flipping burgers or collecting trash. Most PHB's don't even get to see the application of people that have to tick the "have you ever been convicted for a felony offence?" box. They get filtered out and "floor archived" by HR departments.
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