Wash a 21-year-old man from Vancouver has reportedly been pleaded guilty in federal hacking charges due to the involvement in the operation of Satori botnet. By the looks of it, the Satori Botnet is a complete crime platform which is powered by the compromised Internet of Things devices.
Moreover, these machines are built to conduct massive DDoS attacks which target the providers of Internet service, web hosting companies and the gaming platforms on the Internet. By the looks of it, Kenneth Currin Schuchman has been pleaded guilty for abetting and aiding the intrusions. According to sources, Schuchman was an integral part of the conspiracy along with a couple of unnamed individuals for curating Satori.
These individuals later brought a large scale online attack into fruition. Then they managed to launch huge junk of internet traffic where the legitimate visitors were not able to access the device. The plea agreement of Schuchman states that Schuchman donned an alias of Nexus-Zeta or Nexus and he also did work with two distinctive individuals for curating and utilizing the Satori botnet. They were able to harness the collective bandwidth of around 100,000 IoT devices that were hacked.
Moreover, they also exploited the vulnerabilities across several wireless routers, security cameras with internet connectivity, video recorders, and fibre-optic networking devices. According to the IoT experts, the Satori botnet has been created using the original source code that was used in the Mirai. Furthermore, the Mirai botnet attack of 2016 first came into being in Summer of the same year.
The attack delivered the massive botnet attack that was ever recorded in the history of connected devices. The trio comprising Schuchman worked alongside his co-conspirators with nickname Drake and Vamp to develop Satori and by exploiting and identifying the additional security flaws of distinctive Internet of Things systems. People who operator these botnets build and maintain the pool of infected IoT devices on the Internet.
**This post was published on https://krebsonsecurity.com
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