Minecraft is big money.
Three US college-age hackers pleaded guilty to creating the Mirai botnet, which took out critical parts of the internet in 2016 through distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The attacks affected Spotify, Twitter, Reddit, and well-known security journalist Brian Krebs.
The three men created the malicious software to profit from the popular game Minecraft, according to Wired.
They hoped the DDoS attacks would take out rival Minecraft servers, and boost their own DDoS mitigation business.
Three US hackers have pleaded guilty to creating the Mirai botnet, which took out some of the internet’s biggest sites last year including Reddit, Spotify, and Twitter through distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
According to a Wired investigation, the college-age Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman originally created the botnet to gain an advantage on Minecraft. But once they realised the botnet’s power, they went bigger.
Tech: Three US hackers took out key parts of the internet in 2016 because they wanted to make money on Minecraft
