Security News > 2017 > July > Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom (Threatpost)
2017-07-24 18:32
A hacker that goes by the name “BestBuy” admitted to a German court that he was behind an attack last year that knocked over a million Deutsche Telekom customers offline.
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http://threatpost.com/hacker-admits-to-mirai-attack-against-deutsche-telekom/127001/
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