Mushmouth
01-12-2019, 07:50 AM
Daniel Kaye admitted attacking an African phone company - inadvertently crashing Liberia's internet - in 2016.
In November 2016, working secretly out of Cyprus and controlling the botnet via his mobile phone, Kaye ordered it to overwhelm Lonestar's systems.
On his command, hundreds of thousands of the webcams began firing data requests at the west African company.
In Liberia, mobile phone users began to see their devices go offline.
The company called in cyber security consultants who attempted to repel the attack, but by that point it was too late because the botnet ran out of control.
Kaye had sent so much traffic at Lonestar, the entire national system jammed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46840461
In November 2016, working secretly out of Cyprus and controlling the botnet via his mobile phone, Kaye ordered it to overwhelm Lonestar's systems.
On his command, hundreds of thousands of the webcams began firing data requests at the west African company.
In Liberia, mobile phone users began to see their devices go offline.
The company called in cyber security consultants who attempted to repel the attack, but by that point it was too late because the botnet ran out of control.
Kaye had sent so much traffic at Lonestar, the entire national system jammed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46840461