Hacker isolates an African country from the world

Hacker isolates an African country from the world

For $ 30,000, a British hacker attacked a telecommunications network in Liberia, eventually cutting off the Internet from the country.

In an interview with the British newspaper Telegraph, hacker Daniel Kay, a third-party telecommunications company official in Liberia, agreed to launch an electronic attack to disable the mobile phone systems at the company.

Indeed, Kai, 30, carried out what he had in mind when he created the botnet, one of the tools through which cyber attacks were launched, called Mirai # 14.

And began to launch electronic attacks on the company, "Unistair", between October 2016 and February 2017, which caused considerable damage to the Liberian company and cost it repairs worth 600 thousand dollars.

The results were significant after the electronic attack began to put a huge strain on the infrastructure of the company, which broke a part, which led to the interruption of Internet service, and then felt the users of the "Monster" via smart phones that outside the Internet between 3-4 November 2016, and the attack was strong To the extent that users are out of this company.

Kay was a resident of Cyprus when he launched the cyber attack, and the authorities there handed him over to her German counterpart, who investigated him before being handed over to Britain.

The National Crime Enforcement Agency in Britain said Kay's case was one of the most serious cyberspace issues in the country.

After the British pirate pleaded guilty last year, a London court on Friday sentenced him to two years and eight months in prison.

But this verdict is not the end of the story, as it is still at the heart of an international investigation of hundreds of cyber attacks in the world.

The hacker, who says he has developed his own tools, began selling his services to customers online, and services include beatings to competitors who use him.