Mirai Botnet Author Got House Arrest and Fined $8.6 Million T | تقنيه ومعلومات
Mirai Botnet Author Got House Arrest and Fined $8.6 Million
The federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, has sentenced Paras Jha, 22, to six months of house arrest after pleading guilty for violating Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The court also handed him 2500 hours of community service and five years of parole. According to report, Jha launched a series of DDOS attacks on institutions including Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, between November 2014 and September 2016. As claimed by the Justice Department, Jha hacked into the University’s Central authenticator server and put the portal offline on multiple occasions. This action was interrupted by the operation of the University, faculty and the students. It was estimated that Jha’s move cost the university between $3.5 million to $9.5 million.
According to reports, Paras Jha and two other Mirai authors, Josiah White, 21, of Washington, Pennsylvania, and Dalton Norman, 22, of Metairie, Louisiana, created a Mirai botnet. Between the summer and fall, the trio launched an attack that infected collections of computers. Mirai Botnet enables a third party to control a group of infected computers without the knowledge of the owners. Authorities revealed that the defendants used the Mirai botnet to compromise the devices of other institutions. After their operation, they exposed the Mirai source code on the darknet that enabled other hackers to carry on with the Mirai botnet attack.
