Wie 3 Minecraft-Betrüger das Internet lahmgelegt haben

Am 21.10.2016 ist auf der halben Welt das Internet quasi komplett ausgefallen. Dahinter steckte ein unglaublich brutaler Angriff eines Mirai-Botnets auf einen Teil der Infrastruktur des Webs. Wer steckte dahinter? Und was haben Minecraft, Liberia und Überwachungskameras damit zu tun?

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Quellen:

[1] TechCrunch - Large DDoS attacks cause outages at Twitter, Spotify, and other sites (2016)
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/

[2] Wired - How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet (2017)
https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/

[3]
Schneier on Security - Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html

[4]
US Department of Justice - Individual Pleads Guilty to Participating in Internet-of-Things Cyberattack in 2016 (2020)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/individual-pleads-guilty-participating-internet-things-cyberattack-2016

[5]
Cloudfare - What is a DDoS Botnet? https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-botnet/

[6]
Cloudfare - Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis (2017)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-mirai-the-infamous-iot-botnet-a-retrospective-analysis/#:~:text=At%20its%20core%2C%20Mirai%20is,and%20control%20(C%26C)%20servers

[7]
ars Technica - Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by →145k hacked cameras (2016)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/botnet-of-145k-cameras-reportedly-deliver-internets-biggest-ddos-ever/

[8]
Elie - Understanding the Mirai Botnet (2017)
https://elie.net/publication/understanding-the-mirai-botnet/

[9]
CSO - Some thoughts on the Krebs situation: Akamai made a painful business call (2016)
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3123797/some-thoughts-on-the-krebs-situation-akamai-made-a-painful-business-call.html

[10]
Krebs on Security - How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity (2017)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/how-google-took-on-mirai-krebsonsecurity/
[11]
Krebs on Security - Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released (2016)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botnet-mirai-released/
[12]
Wired - The Web-Shaking Mirai Botnet Is Splintering---But Also Evolving (2016)
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/web-shaking-mirai-botnet-splintering-also-evolving/

[13]
Bloomberg - The Hacker Who Took Down a Country (2019)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-20/spiderman-hacker-daniel-kaye-took-down-liberia-s-internet

[14]
The Washington Post - A cyberattack could disrupt Tuesday’s U.S. elections — but wouldn’t change the results (2016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/07/a-cyberattack-could-disrupt-tuesdays-u-s-elections-but-wouldnt-change-the-results/

[15]
The Guardian - DDoS attack that disrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say (2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/26/ddos-attack-dyn-mirai-botnet

[16]
Tech crunch - The sinkhole that saved the internet (2019)
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/08/the-wannacry-sinkhole/

[17]
https://www.malwaretech.com/2016/10/mapping-mirai-a-botnet-case-study.html

[18]
https://www.play3.de/2020/05/18/minecraft-mojang-studios-enthuellen-neue-spielerzahlen/

[19]
https://www.giga.de/spiele/minecraft/news/minecraft-das-verdient-ein-server/

[20]
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/cloudflare-spectrum/minecraft/

[21]
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/

[22]
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/mirai-iot-botnet-co-authors-plead-guilty/

[23]
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2019/update-nicht-verfugbar-hersteller-nicht-zu-erreichen

[24]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-mirai-variant-focuses-on-turning-iot-devices-into-proxy-servers/

[25]
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/iot-botnet-more-targets-in-okirus-cross-hairs

[26]
https://www.avira.com/en/blog/katana-a-new-variant-of-the-mirai-botnet
Musik:

Anton Vlasov - Welcome to my City
Ostin Drais - Cornered Beast
Tilman Sillescu - Wait and see
Jon Gegelman - Mist; Fluttering
Ian Post - Magnetic Storms; Turtle Blues
Michael Vignola - Falling to Zero
Mogli the Iceburg - Ghost
Jimmy Svensson - Other world; Connect now; Full access; Source Code
Max H. - Assault
Kevin Graham - Juggernaut

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