Security News > 2020 > June > Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison
The coder who created the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices and a handful of other botnets will be spending 13 months behind bars, the US Attorney's Office of Alaska announced on Friday.
In September 2019, he pleaded guilty to operating the Satori botnet, made up of IoT devices, and at least two other botnets; to running a DDoS-for-hire service; to cooking up one of the evolving line of botnets while he was indicted and under supervised release; and to swatting one of his former chums, also while on supervised release.
Around January 2018, Schuchman, Drake and others merged elements of Mirai with those of Satori in order to target devices largely based in Vietnam, in order to expand the merged botnet further still.
The refinement of the botnet continued: by March 2018, the improved botnet came to be called by the names Tsunami and Fbot.
Around October 2018, he created a new Qbot DDoS botnet variant - while he was on supervised release, and after he'd already been indicted for creating and deploying botnets.