Brian Krebs published a piece on April 30th about Huge Networks, a Brazilian DDoS protection firm whose own infrastructure was used to launch a sustained botnet campaign against small Brazilian ISPs. The botnet was a Mirai variant running on compromised TP-Link routers. The exposed file archive included private SSH keys belonging to the firm's CEO, Erick Nascimento. Nascimento told Krebs the activity was the work of a competitor trying to tarnish his company's image, and that he has strong evidence stored on the blockchain of who did it, but he won't share the evidence because it would lose the surprise factor.

The Legacy Sysadmin opens by pointing out this is the fourth time this exact story has surfaced in nine years. The original Mirai authors turned out to co-own a DDoS mitigation firm in 2017. A May 2025 incident traced to the same Bra ...