United States Department of Justic sentenced 13 months prison to operator of mirai botnet

Yesterday U.S Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that operator of "mirai IOT botnet and other similer botnet" has been sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in development of DDos (distributed denial-of-service) botnet.
According to court documents, the botnets were initially based largely on the source code previously developed by other individuals to create the Mirai botnet; however, Schuchman and his criminal associates “Vamp” and “Drake” added additional features over time, so that the botnets grew more complex and effective.  At various times, these successor botnets were known as “Satori,” “Okiru,” “Masuta,” and “Tsunami”/”Fbot.” While Schuchman and his criminal associates utilized these successor botnets to conduct DDoS attacks themselves, their primary focus was selling access to paying customers in order to generate illicit proceeds.

The investigation revealed that Schuchman had been engaging in criminal botnet activity since at least August 2017, ultimately compromising hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide, including devices in the District of Alaska.  Schuchman continued to engage in criminal botnet activity, and violated several other conditions of his pretrial release, following his arrest in August 2018.   The three defendants responsible for creating the Mirai botnet, the computer attack platform that inspired the successor botnets, were previously sentenced in September 2018.

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