By now many of you have heard that on September 13, 2016, the website of renowned security journalist Brian Krebs was hit with one of the largest distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) to date.

The magnitude of that attack, the star status of its target within the InfoSec community and the heaps of drama that followed made this one of the most high-profile DDoS stories of the year.

On September 30, the story saw another development when a HackForum user by the name of ‘Anna-senpai’ leaked the source code for Mirai—the botnet malware behind the attacks. It was speculated that in doing so the perpetrator was trying to hide his tracks, rightfully concerned about the repercussions of taking a swing at Brian. Read More.

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