This one's a highly interesting news if you're a huge IT nerd like me like this is a cybersecurity topic. However, there will be stuffs from this news that will turn you off after knowing the fact that Brian Krebs has revealed the complete origins on who's behind the Mirai botnet.
Last year in September, a number of IOT devices were knocked offline with the Mirai botnet along with various websites and Minecraft servers which were the next victims. The security researcher, Brian Krebs had done hundreds of hours of research and investigation and shared the screenshot of the culprit's motive on his security blog, Krebs on Security. Supposedly, it looks professional enough with cybersecurity topics and especially for the tech news sites I've been visiting like Neowin, Engadget and Softpedia to name a few. A week after the assult, the botnet author released the source code so that anyone else could be involved in the attacks and indeed, such attacks were kind of childish and immature and done for fun.
Of course, the investigation was not an easy task, Brian Krebs had his accounts compromised upon investigating the culprits behind various cyber-attacks and botnets. In fact, he might as well cooperate with the law enforcement agencies as well as the cybercrime units over his findings so that they could begin the investigation as soon as possible. Also, such a great but complicated job he had done triggered a series of praises from many people that he deserves a reward. Of course, it can mean that his investigation actions might have annoyed the culprits but we still won't tolerate those kids who do childish shit by compromising devices, services, servers, computers and even websites like that. It is childish enough that it can land those kids in serious trouble although they can deny all that trouble they want like they're indirecting cussing you in the forums but don't care about all the childish cussings out there, just focus on the bravery and excellence Brian Krebs had from this investigation.
There were tons of links that would bring you to the previous cases and investigations and it wasn't the first time Brian Krebs had his things compromised and later restored but I'm not going to talk about too much technical things in details as those things he described from his blog are too technical and I'm not a goodie in cybersecurity stuffs either but what I knew about was that certain companies earned money from all those illegal cybersecurity activities. Do you really want to be foolish enough to work there? It's like the passion of those culprits is too negative as evidence from their work experiences?
Why can't Linkedin do the investigation of those employees who have illegal skills and work experiences? Won't they be used as evidences in court or what not?
Then, there came a controversial finding Brian Krebs had done. According to his glossary along with the screenshot of the culprit's avatar, there are references of origins and Mirai Nikki/Future Diary is one of those reasons that the name of the botnet is derived from. Even worse is that the culprit nickname is named after some cartoon character. Needless to say, that character doesn't seem to be from Future Diary, but some other media I don't even know of.
Furthermore, the culprit was studying Computer Engineering degree at the university at the time as sourced from Softpedia which Brian Krebs also put in his blog. It appeared that the culprit had multiple alias and compromised the university he studied in. There were official comments stating that the culprit, Jha, was offline for almost a week that he couldn't register for classes and all that. But then, he wasn't the only culprit out there who did this shit as if he denied his actions to everyone and started cussing on Brian Krebs saying that Brian was a sociopath. If you think that cybersecurity investigation is one part of a stupid behavior, it is you who probably has a childish behavior out of your ignorance.
It seems that the Mirai botnet author has altered his behavior too negatively like a kid. And I guess that he's already into those radicalized cartoon shows where he would look like a fool with a delusional relationship with those female characters he liked in which he would make up the disgusting imaginations. A character's who mean but nice as if he/she takes you for a fool at first doesn't seem to be quite bad enough unless he/she is completely spoilt like he/she may be different than a western movie/drama character who takes you for a useless puke that you may be yelled at constantly but a cartoon character who's a psycho-lover? NO, it's violent and scary to call it a love that way and I had seen those dramas where psycho-lover characters went after the victims they liked while the real nice lovers were trying to search for and rescue those victims so f**k those kinds of fictional characters, they deserved to be arrested for violent behaviors. What about those characters with other personalities then? I guess that it is beyond the scope.
Even if a few culprits behind the cyberattacks were arrested, the investigations don't end here. There may be similar botnets to Mirai and as stated above, even Brian Krebs had become the victim of those compromises while investigating. It will take weeks, months or even years to uncover many cyber-criminals over the compromises people had encountered. Also, you DO NOT learn the courses offered by schools to do the bad things in the future and it has been why the schools have the disclaimers on some of the assignments. On the Vlog side, I don't know if many famous Gaming YouTubers out there will talk about this because, not only the news is so fascinating enough, but also the fact that those kids behind the Mirai botnet became so radicalized that the behavior is so disgusting as we can know of. In fact, cartoon shows have never been one of my main interests in the first place but I guess that it was best not stumble upon one in the first place.
