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p>Minecraft link to the largest botnet

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p>Malware that led to the internet's biggest ever cyber-attack in the year 2000 was linked to Minecraft servers according to the people who investigated it.

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p>Brian Krebs, security blogger has spent months researching the attack that took his blog offline.

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p>He claims that the origins of the Mirai botnet can be traced back to rivalries within the Minecraft community.

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p>His claims are supported by an expert in security who has offered net security to Minecraft servers.

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p>Robert Coelho (Vice President of Security ProxyPipe) Robert Coelho (Vice President of Security ProxyPipe) told the BBC that his suspicions concerning the Mirai code were relayed to the FBI who are "actively investigating" the code.

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p>Mirai was a botnet with more than 500,000 connected devices like routers and webcams, was created. https://gardner-park.federatedjournals.com/7-minecraft-treehouse-ideas-for-your-next-build-ign-1663218003 </p>

p>It launched attacks known as denial-of-service (DDoS) which targeted websites with so many data that they fell apart, and were the biggest ever.

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p>Reddit, Spotify, and Twitter were among the victims.

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p>'Hundreds of hours'

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p>After the attacks, the person claiming the responsibility, using the codename Anna Senpai, released the source code online, opening the door to copycat attacks. https://writeablog.net/valueradio1/what-are-the-best-free-minecraft-games-online </p>

p>Later an altered version of the malware was used to attack UK internet service providers TalkTalk or the Post Office.

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p>Since being hit by the Mirai botnet in September 2016, Mr Krebs has devoted "hundreds of hours" in identifying who was behind it.

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p>"If you've ever wondered why it is that so few cyber criminals are prosecuted I can assure you that the sheer amount of persistence and resources for investigation required to piece together who's been responsible for what (and why) in the online era is staggering," he wrote.

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p>His research led him to Minecraft, a computer program now owned by Microsoft that lets users build things using cubic blocks.

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p>It has a huge following particularly among children and it is estimated that at any one time one million people are playing it.

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p>Mr. Krebs claims that a Minecraft server with more than 1,000 users can earn $50,000 per month (PS40,600). This is mainly due to players renting space to build their own Minecraft worlds.

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p>He writes that Anna Senpai's identity was not revealed until he understood Mirai the newest member of an IoT botnet family that had been developing for more than three years.

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p>The code used in these earlier versions was frequently used to hack into web servers that host Minecraft He claims.

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p>ProxyPipe owned by Mr. Coelho has a large number of Minecraft servers as clients. It in mid-2015 was attacked by a massive attack that was launched by an unidentified botnet that was made up of IoT devices like web cameras.

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p>BBC interviewer Mr Coelho said he was suspicious of the attacker and that "Minecraft is a tight-knit community." We know who is talking.

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p>He alleged that the attack came from an unrelated security firm that also provided DDoS protection to Minecraft users.

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p>He claimed that the founder and client of the security firm had previously managed the Minecraft web server.

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p>He also claims that the Mirai author - Anna Senpai - contacted him via Skype at the end of September partly to explain that the attack on his firm was "not personal" but also to brag that he was compensated by the owners of a large Minecraft server to launch an attack on an opponent server.

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p>What is a DDoS attack and how can it be stopped?

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p>7 March 2016

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p>"Smart" devices are used in cyber-attacks

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p>22 October 2016

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