An 18-year-old student from Stockport has been charged by the U.K. authorities for his alleged role in the operation of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on major organizations and firms.
According to the West Midlands police, Jack Chappell ran the service which was used by cybercriminals for illicit activities. Chappell ran an online helpdesk as part of the DDoS service which was also known as booter or stresser.
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The booter or stresser as it is called was used by cybercriminals to disrupt services of Netflix, Amazon, BBC, T-Mobile, EE, T-Mobile, BT, Virgin Media, O2 and used in 2015 to disrupt the systems of NatWest.
So far, the suspect has been charged with impairing the operation of computers under the Computer Misuse Act, encouraging or assisting an offence, and money laundering crime proceeds with a US national.
The West Midlands police said that none of the DDoS attacks run by Chappell resulted in any loss or theft of customer data. This whole bust-up took the combined efforts of the FBI, Europol's European Cybercrime Center (EC3), British authorities and the Israeli police
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