Mirai botnet creators praised for helping FBI, won’t serve prison time
by Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica - All content on (#3Z369)
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More than nine months ago, three men pleaded guilty to creating and operating the Mirai and Clickfraud botnets.
However, on Tuesday, after prosecutors announced that the men had provided "extensive" and "exceptional" assistance to federal law enforcement, a federal judge in Alaska sentenced each of them to just five years of probation-no prison time.
The men, Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, New Jersey; Josiah White, 21, of Washington, Pennsylvania; and Dalton Norman, 22, of Metairie, Louisiana, will continue to cooperate with the FBI.
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