Teenage Hacker Arrested For Disrupting 911 Service Amongst Ddos Attack

Just concluding month, researchers explained how an assailant tin knock the 911 service offline inward an entire dry reason past times launching automated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of precisely 6000 smartphones.

But, doing so, inward reality, could non exclusively dry reason world inward danger but the assailant equally well.

The same happened to an 18-year-old teen from Arizona, who was arrested this calendar week next a severe disruption of 911 emergency systems caused due to 1 of his iOS exploits.

Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai discovered an iOS vulnerability that could endure exploited to manipulate devices, including trigger pop-ups, opened upwards email, together with abuse telephone features, according to a press liberate from the Cyber Crimes Unit of Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

In guild to essay the flaw, Desai allegedly created several exploits together with posted a link to 1 of his JavaScript exploits on his Twitter line organisation human relationship together with other websites.

People accessing the exploit link from their iPhones together with iPads were forced to telephone telephone 911 non-stop, which flooded a 911 telephone telephone centre amongst to a greater extent than than 100 hang-up calls inside a "matter of minutes" before this week.

After existence notified of disruption to the 911 service approximately the Phoenix, Arizona, area, investigators straight off launched an investigation together with traced the Twitter link dorsum to a spider web page registered to 'Meet Desai.'

The regime identified Desai equally the possible suspect behind the assault against the 911 service together with took him into custody slow Wednesday.

On his part, Desai claimed he precisely meant to upload a script that merely displayed pop-ups together with caused iOS devices to reboot, but he mistakenly published a link to an exploit that caused iOS devices to dial 911 together with hang upwards continually.

According to authorities, Desai shared the critical iOS exploit on Twitter amongst over 12,000 followers, out of which over 1,849 clicked on that link.

Maricopa officers arrested Desai, took him to jail together with booked him on 3 counts of felony reckoner tampering charges, on Monday, Oct 24.