Titanium Stresser DDoS Creator Sentenced
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 04/26/2017 08:14 AM
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Twenty-year-old Alan Mudd has been sentence to two years in jail for creating and distributing Distributed Denial of Service malware.
Mudd created the malware known as Titanium Stresser when he was 16. He sold the malware on the dark web and at one point had as many as 112,000 registered users. Those users attacked 666,000 IP addresses which netted the hacker $495,000 in U.S. currency and bitcoin.
It was disclosed in court papers that Mudd himself used the malware to attack 594 sites.
Targets included gaming platform such as Xbox Live as well as UK universities. He was arrested in 2015. In spite of being autistic, the judge in the case felt compelled to give him jail time as a deterrent to others.
Source: SCMagazine
Mudd created the malware known as Titanium Stresser when he was 16. He sold the malware on the dark web and at one point had as many as 112,000 registered users. Those users attacked 666,000 IP addresses which netted the hacker $495,000 in U.S. currency and bitcoin.It was disclosed in court papers that Mudd himself used the malware to attack 594 sites.
Targets included gaming platform such as Xbox Live as well as UK universities. He was arrested in 2015. In spite of being autistic, the judge in the case felt compelled to give him jail time as a deterrent to others.
Source: SCMagazine
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