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Satori botnet

The school kid who hacked over a million IoT devices

Not all young people use their potential for the best purposes. According to ethical hacking specialists, the young man Kenneth Currin Schuchman, while unemployed and without completing his high school studies, decided to hack nearly a million Internet-connected devices using the code of an infamous botnet. The 21-year-old claimed to have participated in the creation […]

Federal prosecutors indict 20-year-old youngster behind Satori botnet

The young man from Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges After Mirage botnet source code leaked online, numerous gangs of short-aged hackers became involved in dangerous activities. Based on a robust software infrastructure, Mirai still seems to be quite functional and lethal, as it requires minimal effort to update it and it does not […]