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    Teenage hacker jailed for masterminding attacks on Sony and Microsoft

    As I understand it one of the things Mudd did is make DDoS simpler. It used to be that you had to have some zombie computers and then you'd run a script and this took at least a little tech know how. Mudd made a program that he would sell you a lease to and all you had to do was to run this program tell it which website to attack and it would launch the DDoS for you, it can't be made much simpler. I guess Mudd maintain his own network of zombies he would let the leased programs access. He made $100K of dollars off this.

    US wants to extradite him, a lot of the crimes he committed were in the US.






    https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...sony-microsoft



    A man has been jailed for two years for setting up a computer hacking business that caused chaos worldwide.

    Adam Mudd was 16 when he created the Titanium Stresser program, which carried out more than 1.7m attacks on websites including Minecraft, Xbox Live and Microsoft and TeamSpeak, a chat tool for gamers.

    He earned the equivalent of more than £386,000 in US dollars and bitcoins from selling the program to cybercriminals.


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    Mudd pleaded guilty and was sentenced at the Old Bailey. The judge, Michael Topolski QC, noted that Mudd came from a “perfectly respectable and caring family”. He said the effect of Mudd’s crimes had wreaked havoc “from Greenland to New Zealand, from Russia to Chile”.

    Topolski said the sentence must have a “real element of deterrent” and refused to suspend the jail term. “I’m entirely satisfied that you knew full well and understood completely this was not a game for fun,” he told Mudd. “It was a serious money-making business and your software was doing exactly what you created it to do.”

    Mudd showed no emotion as he was sent to a young offender institution.

    During the two-day hearing, Jonathan Polnay, prosecuting, said the effect of Mudd’s hacking program was “truly global”. “Where there are computers, there are attacks – in almost every major city in the world – with hotspots in France, Paris, around the UK,” he said.

    The court heard that Mudd, who lived with his parents, had previously undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and was more interested in status in the online gaming community than the money.

    The court heard that the defendant, now 20, carried out 594 of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against 181 IP addresses between December 2013 and March 2015.

    He admitted to security breaches against his college while he was studying computer science. The attacks on West Herts College crashed the network, cost about £2,000 to investigate and caused “incalculable” damage to productivity, the court heard.


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    On one occasion in 2014, the college hacking affected 70 other schools and colleges, including Cambridge, Essex and East Anglia universities as well as local councils.

    Mudd’s explanation for one of the attacks was that he had reported being mugged to the college, but claimed no action was taken.

    Polnay said there were more than 112,000 registered users of Mudd’s program who hacked about 666,000 IP addresses. Of those, nearly 53,000 were in the UK.

    Among the targets was the fantasy game RuneScape, which had 25,000 attacks. Its owner company spent £6m trying to defend itself against DDoS attacks, with a revenue loss of £184,000.

    The court heard that Mudd created Titanium Stresser in September 2013 using a fake name and address in Manchester. He offered a variety of payment plans to his customers, including discounts for bulk purchases of up to $309.99 for 30,000 seconds over five years as well as a refer-a-friend scheme.

    Polnay said: “This is a young man who lived at home. This is not a lavish lifestyle case. The motivation around this we tend to agree is about status. The money-making is by the by.”

    When he was arrested in March 2015, Mudd was in his bedroom on his computer, which he refused to unlock before his father intervened.

    Mudd, from Kings Langley in Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to one count of committing unauthorised acts with intent to impair the operation of computers; one count of making, supplying or offering to supply an article for use in an offence contrary to the Computer Misuse Act; and one count of concealing criminal property.

    Ben Cooper, defending, appealed for his client to be given a suspended sentence. He said Mudd had been sucked into the cyber world of online gaming and was “lost in an alternate reality” after withdrawing from school because of bullying.

    Mudd, who was expelled from college and now works as a kitchen porter, had been offline for two years, which was a form of punishment for any computer-obsessed teenager, Cooper said.

    The “bright and high-functioning” defendant understood what he did was wrong but at the time he lacked empathy due to his medical condition, the court heard.

    Cooper said: “This was an unhappy period for Mr Mudd, during which he suffered greatly. This is someone seeking friendship and status within the gaming community.”

    The judge said: “I have a duty to the public who are worried about this, threatened by this, damaged by this all the time … It’s terrifying.”

    The sentencing comes on the day that alleged hacker Lauri Love was given the go-ahead to challenge his extradition to the US.

    US authorities have been fighting for Love, who has Asperger syndrome, to face trial on hacking charges, which his lawyers say could mean a sentence of up to 99 years in prison if he is found guilty.

    The 32-year-old, who lives with his parents near Newmarket in Suffolk, is alleged to have stolen huge amounts of data from US agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the US army, the Department of Defence, Nasa and the FBI in 2012 and 2013.

    His solicitors, Kaim Todner, announced in a statement on Tuesday that they had obtained permission for Love to appeal against extradition.

    No date has yet been set for the challenge, which will be heard at the high court in London.
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    "This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

    -- Capt. Copeland

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    Hope we get him and throw the book at this punk kid.
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    Oh...spergy Eurotrash. Who would have guessed?

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    Oh look, another fugly pimple-ridden teen who's in over his head.
    Idiot deserves what's coming.

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    A future "millionaire before 20" imo. Fucking little brainiacs.

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    he did nothing wrong, im sure a portion of his revenue even came from companies testing out their services to better defend against ddos attacks.

    its not his fault the people who paid him used the service illegally this would be like if pornhub got in trouble everytime someone tried to upload child porn
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nixx View Post
    If PornHub specifically marketed themselves as ChildPornHub and not only didn't bother to address CP, but actively accepted money for hosting it, I'm quite certain they'd be in tons of trouble as well.
    its called a stresser program. plenty of companies do things like that to stress test their services.

    i dont see anywhere that states he knew who paid and what they did with the services its entirely possible that he kept no logs, i guess a better example would be vpn services getting sued for people using vpns to torrent

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    the only thing imo he should get in trouble for is running a business under a fake name/alias as im sure that IS illegal. its not illegal however to offer a service and someone abuse said service
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    Quote Originally Posted by Immitis View Post
    its called a stresser program. plenty of companies do things like that to stress test their services.

    i dont see anywhere that states he knew who paid and what they did with the services its entirely possible that he kept no logs, i guess a better example would be vpn services getting sued for people using vpns to torrent

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    the only thing imo he should get in trouble for is running a business under a fake name/alias as im sure that IS illegal. its not illegal however to offer a service and someone abuse said service
    You do realize he setup the bot net required to do all this right? He infected plenty of machines to do this (which by the way is illegal), he damn well knew what he was into and what it would cause. Any Pen tester knows what services to use and large security companies have in house setups to do this test, not some shady shit like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iamanerd View Post
    You do realize he setup the bot net required to do all this right? He infected plenty of machines to do this (which by the way is illegal), he damn well knew what he was into and what it would cause. Any Pen tester knows what services to use and large security companies have in house setups to do this test, not some shady shit like this.
    if he infected other peoples machines then i change my mind. still i dont think he should receive an extremely harsh sentence as he wasnt the one ddos'ing companies
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    "so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon

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    He should get 15 years minimum in US and banned from electronic use for life.

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    US authorities have been fighting for Love
    who could be fighting against love?!?!?! Oh the humanity
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rethul Ur No View Post
    Oh...spergy Eurotrash. Who would have guessed?

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    you see we have this thing in Europe ... It is called The Internet, but not that funny thing you have in the US that we would ent use even for the cheapest mobile :P So, in other words, our kids can have fun

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    Well 2 years in jail and after that he's going to get a job at basically any tech company he wants so not bad.

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    So...this was in the UK?
    The OP should make mention of that.

    Also, I do not agree with extradition of people who were minors when commiting a crime to the USA to be sentenced for said crime.

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    Try the script kiddie little fuck as an adult IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Docturphil View Post
    Try the script kiddie little fuck as an adult IMO.
    Is that what gets you excited?
    Putting "kiddie" and "fuck as an adult" in the same sentence?

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    Is this the infamous hacker known as "4chan"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noradin View Post
    Is that what gets you excited?
    Putting "kiddie" and "fuck as an adult" in the same sentence?
    Nah, big titties get me excited.

    Good play on words though. A slow golf clap for you.

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    may his asshole be raw and gaping if he's locked away
    Well then get your shit together.
    Get it all together. And put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it’s together. And if you gotta take it somewhere, take it somewhere, you know, take it to the shit store and sell it, or put it in a shit museum, I don’t care what you do, you just gotta get it together.
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    All these people know nothing about the justice system. Everyone in this thread saying he should be locked up and rot in jail know so little about the world its disgusting.
    You know whats gonna really happen to this kid? The government will hire him. Simple as that. U.S. isn't going to waste his talent by locking him up because he made you guys butt hurt by attacking games and selling his programs to criminals (If he if did sell too true "criminals" his monetary amount from selling the programs would be in the millions). They are going to put his talents to use. One of the fastest ways to get rich is to be a hacker and get caught.

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