Notable cyber individuals (batch 2): leakers, malware authors, the informant - + Mirai

Second batch of named, public-record cyber figures wired to their events/orgs, with graded dossiers in the Persons tab. Also adds the Mirai IoT-botnet node (a major malware that was missing).

• Chelsea Manning -> WikiLeaks - Army analyst who leaked the War Logs / Collateral Murder / Cablegate (2010); convicted 2013, commuted 2017.
• Josh Schulte -> Vault 7 - ex-CIA engineer convicted (2022) as the source of the largest data theft in CIA history (also a separate CSAM conviction, stated as court fact).
• Onel de Guzman -> ILOVEYOU - the Manila student who wrote the 2000 worm; arrested but never charged (no applicable law); confirmed authorship on record in 2020.
• Paras Jha -> Mirai - co-author of the IoT botnet (pleaded guilty 2017); built for Minecraft DDoS markets before it escaped.
• Hector Monsegur ("Sabu") -> LulzSec - a leader who, after his 2011 arrest, became an FBI informant whose cooperation dismantled the crew.

Mirai (2016)

Enslaved insecure IoT devices (default credentials) into a massive DDoS botnet - hit Krebs-on-Security, OVH, and via Dyn (Oct 2016) knocked Twitter/Netflix/Reddit offline across the US East Coast. Its source code was released publicly, spawning endless variants - the IoT-botnet branch of the malware lineage and a wake-up call on IoT security + DNS single-points-of-failure.

Honest limits

Public-record role only in the graph; behavioral assessments are in the dossiers (labeled inference, calibrated confidence). No private/biographical detail beyond court records + on-record interviews (no doxxing). Multiple convictions are stated factually, without sensationalism. Inclusion is documentation, not additional accusation.

Sources: DOJ/SDNY (US v. Manning 2013/commutation 2017; US v. Schulte 2022; US v. Jha 2017; US v. Monsegur); on-record de Guzman interviews; Dyn 2016 incident. Cross-refs: WikiLeaks, Vault7, ILOVEYOU_Worm, LulzSec, FBI, US_Government, Malware_Lineage.

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