UPDATE 2-Three men plead guilty to crimes tied to 2016 botnet attacks
December 13, 2017 at 13:40 PM EST
Dec 13 (Reuters) - A former Rutgers University student and two other men pleaded guilty to computer crimes related to the creation, sale and use of the Mirai botnet, a network of infected electronics equipment used to knock major websites offline in massive 2016 cyber attacks, according to court documents.