The hacker who shut down Liberia from the Internet, was imprisoned for 2,5 yearsPhoto: NCA

The judge who handed down the sentence, admitted that Daniel Kaye, a smart young man who knows what he’s capable

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A London court sentenced to two and a half years of Daniel Kay, who three years ago, hacking was disconnected from the Internet the entire Liberia.

On 11 January, said Bi-bi-si.

Kay pled guilty to that produced by a cyber attack on the African phone company.

The judge who handed down the sentence, admitted that the hacker is a smart young man who knows what he’s capable. At the same time, he expressed regret that Kay used her ability to hurt people.

Daniel Kay — hacker-taught from Egama in Surrey. In 2015, he was hired to attack the largest provider of mobile communications and the Internet of Liberia — Lonestar. The order was placed by an employee of a competing company Cellcom. The hacker offered a salary of $10 thousand per month.

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Botnet (network of infected devices) Kay, which he used for a DDoS attack on Lonestar, consisted of a surveillance company Dahua in China. In November 2016, he made hundreds of thousands of devices to access the servers Liberian provider. The Lonestar system has not coped with the load and passed out.

A network of bots Kay sent so many requests that the whole of Liberia for some time, was disconnected from the Internet. Subscribers of Lonestar faced with the fact that their Mobilnye phones do not catch network.

Kay was arrested in February 2017, when he returned to the UK. The national Agency for the fight against crime linked with the hacker and other attacks, in particular, three British Bank Lloyds, Barclays and Halifax.

Botnet Kay called Mirai #14 performed a DDoS attack is when a network device sends parallel queries to the system in order to bring it to failure. When this happens, the users of the service entirely or partially can’t access it. Such attacks are online shopping, online publications, banks, government sites and other services.

We will remind, hackers stole Ukrainians more than five million hryvnias. Pick a password and using the computer for the rights of the owner, they received access to the online banking that is installed on the computer and transferred money to accounts controlled by or transferred them in cryptocurrency.

Typically, such actions were carried out at night. The Bank did not respond to these operations because they were carried out from a regular client.