One moron down, two to go
The script kiddie at the center of the Satori botnet case has pleaded guilty.
Kenneth Schuchman, 21, of Vancouver in Washington state, this week admitted [PDF] to aiding and abetting computer hacking in an Alaskan federal district court. In exchange for only having to confess to a single criminal count, and increasing his chances of a reduced sentence, Schuchman admitted he ran the destructive Satori Internet-of-Things botnets.
From July 2017 to late 2018, Schuchman, along with co-conspirators referred to by prosecutors as "Vamp" and "Drake," built and maintained networks of hijacked devices: these internet-connected gadgets would be infected and controlled by the gang's Satori malware, which was derived from the leaked Mirai source code. Schuchman, who is ..
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