Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old teenager from Stockport, is defendant of helping cyber criminals amongst his DDoS booter service (DDoS-for-hire service) to overflowing millions of websites approximately the earth amongst the massive total of information as well as eventually select them down, making them unavailable to their users.
Among the victims that were allegedly attacked past times Chappell's malware are the National Crime Agency (NCA), T-Mobile, O2, Virgin Media, the BBC, Amazon, Vodafone, BT, Netflix, as well as NatWest that had its online banking systems downward inwards a 2015 cyber attack.
Chappell is charged next an investigation led past times the West Midlands Regional Cyber Crime Unit as well as assisted past times Israeli Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as well as Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3).
According to authorities, the teenager rented his DDoS-for-hire service to criminals as well as also ran an online helpdesk for would-be hackers equally business office of his operation.
"He has been charged amongst impairing the functioning of computers nether the Computer Misuse Act, summation encouraging or assisting an offense as well as coin laundering law-breaking proceeds together amongst an American national," West Midlands Police said inwards a statement.
Chappell is due to seem at Manchester Magistrates' Court on July 4, Tuesday.
Late final year, some other 19-year-old educatee from Hertford (Town inwards the UK) was pled guilty for running Titanium Stresser DDoS-for-hire service, 1 of the virtually pop DDoS booter tool that was used to launch over 1.7 Million DDoS attacks worldwide as well as brought him an income of to a greater extent than than US$385,000.
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