After reading Jason’s post on the Mirai botnet I decided to look up the source code to get an idea of the coding involved with a botnet. They have it posted on GITHUB, and the link below is to Forum.txt, a post which was allegedly made by the botnet designer, who goes by the handle Annai-senpai. The comments are interesting, particularly when he comments on the lack of skills of his adversaries. He also gives a description of the setup used to administer and control the botnet.
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Cool follow-up post Bilaal. I am amazed at how easy it is to
I do see one silver-lining out of this whole ordeal – ISPs are cleaning-up how they monitor traffic (e.g. an IP camera has no business sending traffic to a blog!).
I’m actually in the middle of watching an interesting Youtube video by Eli the Computer guy on IoT security in the wake of the Krebs attack. So far it’s pretty interesting if anyone wants to check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpQ2qsSj7-o