Call of Duty DDoS attack police arrest teen
Manc boy nicked after score-boosting attack on fellow gamers
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A 17-year-old from Manchester has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit (PCeU) on suspicion of being behind a denial of service attack against the online game Call of Duty.
The teenager was arrested in the Beswick area of Manchester early on Thursday morning.
He is suspected of involvement in denial of service attacks which severely disrupted the online version of the game, and the playtime of many other players, in September. Distributed denial of service attacks are currently being used against the websites of Sarah Palin, Mastercard and other perceived "enemies of Wikileaks and Julian Assange".
The game's publisher, Activision, contacted police after the attacks.
The investigation by PCeU found the DDoS attack was made using a malicious program called "Phenom Booter".
Police found the malware being offered for sale on a web forum for Call of Duty players to allow them to attack other players of the game and thereby improve their own scores.
Police tracked the server to the UK and finally via its IP number to Greater Manchester.
The 17-year-old is still in custody and has been arrested on suspicion of offences against the Computer Misuse Act.
DI Paul Hoare of the PCeU said online gaming was a major retail sector so software aimed at disrupting such games could have commercial implications for the companies concerned, and for their reputations.
He also said: "This type of crime can often be the precursor to further offending in more traditional areas of online crime." ®
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Poor information :(
I appologise for whining, but technical details seem to be very thin on the ground here, and I'm rather confused about a few points...
"Distributed denial of service attacks are currently being used against the websites of Sarah Palin, Mastercard and other perceived enemies of Wikileaks and Julian Assange"
Is this at all relevant?
The investigation by PCeU found the DDoS attack was made using a malicious program called "Phenom Booter".
If it was launched using off-the-shelf software, surely this make it a single-homed DoS attack, not a DDoS?
"Police found the malware being offered for sale on a web forum for Call of Duty players to allow them to attack other players of the game and thereby improve their own scores."
Is this illegal?
Police tracked the server to the UK and finally via its IP number to Greater Manchester.
What server?!
Precursor?
DI Paul Hoare of the PCeU ... also said: "This type of crime can often be the precursor to further offending in more traditional areas of online crime."
Did he honestly try to say that DDoS attacks are a 'gateway' crime? ROFL
Beswick
Knowing how much of a shit hole Beswick is, if I lived there I'd be doing all I could to get into prison as well...
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