Robert Stahl

October 26, 2018

Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks

This post was originally published on this siteThe convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University, his former alma mater. Paras Jha, in an undated photo from his former LinkedIn profile. Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer whiz from Fanwood, N.J., was studying computer science at Rutgers when he developed Mirai along with two other convicted co-conspirators. According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his […]