--- title: "The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story" date: "2023-12-01T19:22-08:00" description: "Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI." link: https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-hackers-web-killing-monster/ ---