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Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison

Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s houses were surrounded by SWAT teams after hoax phone calls claimed hostages were being held there.

Casey Viner got into a spat over a $1.50 wager in a Call of Duty World War II game that led to the fatal shooting of an innocent man.

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.

“They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy sh*t.”

The imposter claimed to be the Facebook exec and said he’d shot his wife, tied up his kids and planted pipe bombs “all over the place.”

George Duke-Cohan is the British teen who posed as a worried father whose daughter had called him mid-flight during a hijacking.

The long list of charges includes bank fraud, involuntary manslaughter, cyberstalking and wire fraud.

The FBI recently busted a group of criminals who seem to be using Call of Duty to coordinate cryptocurrency thefts.

The teenager made bomb threats to schools, and to a flight between the UK and San Francisco while it was in mid-air.