{"id":8896,"date":"2017-12-27T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2017-12-26T03:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T10:28:36","slug":"miraicraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/27\/miraicraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Miraicraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from WIRED<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>HOW A DORM ROOM <em>MINECRAFT<\/em> SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"byline-component__link\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/garrett-m-graff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\" aria-hidden=\"true\">GARRETT M. GRAFF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4vUp3ydjs0\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lede\">THE MOST DRAMATIC <\/span>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\u2014powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers\u2014that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/10\/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unleashed sweeping attacks<\/a> on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasn\u2019t anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was <em>Minecraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s backbone, came under a crippling assault.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014and unsealed by the Justice Department on Wednesday\u2014was 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\u2014Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, respectively\u2014admitted their role in creating and launching Mirai into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, prosecutors say, the defendants hadn\u2019t intended to bring down the internet\u2014they had been trying to gain an advantage in the computer game <em>Minecraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET by\u00a0GARRETT M. GRAFF 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\u2014powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers\u2014that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}