Enlarge / Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside a communications room at an office in London, U.K., on Monday, May 21, 2018. (credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Over nine months ago, three men pleaded guilty to creating and operating the Mirai and Clickfraud botnets.
However, on Tuesday, after prosecutors announced that the men had provided “extensive” and “exceptional” assistance to federal law enforcement, a federal judge in Alaska sentenced each of them to just five years of probation—no prison time.
The men, Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, New Jersey; Josiah White, 21, of Washington, Pennsylvania; and Dalton Norman, 22, of Metairie, Louisiana, will continue to cooperate with the FBI.
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