Cybercrime

UK Hacker Jailed for Attack on Liberian Telecoms Firm

A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications services in Liberia.

Daniel Kaye was paid by an employee of a rival firm to launch a distributed denial of service attack on Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar.

Associated Press

January 11, 2019

A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications services in Liberia.

Daniel Kaye was paid by an employee of a rival firm to launch a distributed denial of service attack on Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar.

Britain’s National Crime Agency says the attack overwhelmed Lonestar’s computer network, disabled internet access across the West African country and cost the company tens of millions of dollars.

The 30-year-old Kaye pleaded guilty last month to two offenses under the Computer Misuse Act and one charge of possessing criminal property.

Mike Hulett of the crime agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit called Kaye “a highly skilled and capable hacker-for-hire.”

Judge Alexander Milne handed down a prison sentence Friday at London’s Blackfriars Crown Court.

Written By Associated Press

Latest News

Click to comment

CIEM Chat: How to Reduce Cloud Identity Risk

March 26, 2024

Join the session as we discuss the challenges and best practices for cybersecurity leaders managing cloud identities.

Virtual Event: Ransomware Resilience & Recovery Summit

April 17, 2024

SecurityWeek’s Ransomware Resilience and Recovery Summit helps businesses to plan, prepare, and recover from a ransomware incident.

You Against the World: The Offenders Dilemma

Foreign attackers have many more toolsets at their disposal, so we need to make sure we’re selective about our modeling, preparation and how we assess and fortify ourselves. (Tom Eston)

Why Intelligence Sharing Is Vital to Building a Robust Collective Cyber Defense Program

With automated, detailed, contextualized threat intelligence, organizations can better anticipate malicious activity and utilize intelligence to speed detection around proven attacks. (Marc Solomon)

Know Your Audience When Speaking to Security Practitioners

How can security practitioners make sense of the vendor landscape and separate those who talk a good game from those who can execute, perform, and solve real problems for enterprises? (Joshua Goldfarb)

Cybersecurity Mesh: Overcoming Data Security Overload

A significant cybersecurity challenge arises from managing the immense volume of data generated by numerous IT security tools, leading organizations into a reactive rather than proactive approach. (Torsten George)

The OODA Loop: The Military Model That Speeds Up Cybersecurity Response

The OODA Loop can be used both by defenders and incident responders for a variety of use cases such as threat assessment, threat monitoring, and threat hunting. (Etay Maor)

Cybercrime

Comodo Forums Hacked via Recently Disclosed vBulletin Vulnerability

A recently disclosed vBulletin vulnerability, which had a zero-day status for roughly two days last week, was exploited in a hacker attack targeting the...

Eduard KovacsOctober 1, 2019