Man Arrested for Three Day Attack on 911 Services
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 11/17/2016 11:35 AM
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A Phoenix man, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai,18, was nabbed by police the day after he launched a cyber-attack that forced users to make nearly 300 calls to emergency services and hang up.
Desai is being charged with four counts of computer tampering. He created a malware which he posted on Twitter that, when clicked on, forced users to call 911 services, according to the Arizona Republic.
His excuse was that he was hoping for a bug bounty from Apple and he only wanted to prank the police. The malware he created modified the coding to add pop-ups, prompts to open email applications, and activate automatic telephone dialing on iOS devices.
Desai was arrested Oct. 27th, after his prank caused the interruption of emergency services for three days.
Source: SCMagazine
Desai is being charged with four counts of computer tampering. He created a malware which he posted on Twitter that, when clicked on, forced users to call 911 services, according to the Arizona Republic.His excuse was that he was hoping for a bug bounty from Apple and he only wanted to prank the police. The malware he created modified the coding to add pop-ups, prompts to open email applications, and activate automatic telephone dialing on iOS devices.
Desai was arrested Oct. 27th, after his prank caused the interruption of emergency services for three days.
Source: SCMagazine
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