Indian-origin student charged with cyber-attacks in US
Thursday, 15/12/2016
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New York: An Indian-origin computer science student arrested after a multinational operation to crackdown on young hackers has been charged with carrying out cyber attacks on a chat site, according to officials.
Sean Sharma was produced before federal Magistrate Judge Alka Sagar in Los Angeles on Monday and was released on a $100,000 bail bond, said Brian Stretch, the federal prosecutor for Northern California. Sharma had used a “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) tool to disrupt the computers of a San Francisco company that provides chat services to other companies between November 2014 and January 2015, Stretch said in a statement. DDoS is a form of cyber attack that floods computers with bogus requests that overwhelm and paralyse it. DDoS uses viruses and programmes known as botnets because they robotically transmit disruptive requests to servers, and trojans, which are secretly implanted in other people’s computers to carry out attacks from there.
