Security News > 2020 > June > Satori Botnet Creator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for developing Mirai botnet variants that compromised hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.
The man, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, of Vancouver, Wash., was sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to creating and operating the Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets.
The botnets are considered "Successors" to Mirai, as they use the same source code as the infamous botnet.
Schuchman engaged in criminal botnet activity since at least August 2017, during which he both rented out the internet-of-things botnets and operated them himself.
In 2018, researchers then linked the hacker behind Satori as the same one behind another botnet family, Masuta and PureMasuta.