TIL that the big Mirai attack that took down Dyn et. al. wasn't botnet creator Paras Jha, but a 15-year-old in Ireland that copied and co-opted the code to take down video game servers. From @scottjshapiro's book, an excerpt of which is in @IEEESpectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/mirai-botnet
The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

<p>Their DDoS malware threatened the entire Internet</p>

IEEE Spectrum
May 26, 2023 at 1:05pmWeb