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Mirai Botnet Authors Plead Guilty | Krebsonsecurity

ID: 3b58c625-a55a-5adb-b6a4-6c0e3933e3d2

STIX ID: report--3b58c625-a55a-5adb-b6a4-6c0e3933e3d2

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2017-12-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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### Executive summary: The article describes the guilty pleas of Josiah White, Paras Jha, and Dalton Norman for creating and operating the Mirai botnet that compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, facilitated large-scale DDoS attacks (including against Krebsonsecurity and Dyn), and was rented out as a denial-of-service-for-hire service; it outlines their respective roles, the impact on victims, and the legal consequences they face.

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