The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 7:23 a.m.

The three college-age defendants behind the creation of the Mirai botnet\u2014an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet in the fall of 2016 with unprecedentedly powerful distributed denial of service attacks\u2014will stand in an Alaska courtroom Tuesday and ask for a novel ruling from a federal judge: They hope to be sentenced to work for the FBI.