Briton Faces Court Over Deutsche Telekom Cyber Attack
Muhammad Rameez Published July 21, 2017 | 06:45 PM
BERLIN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jul, 2017 ) - A British man admitted in a German court Friday to staging a large-scale cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom last year, saying he was acting for a Liberian client.
The 29-year-old described as "the worst mistake of my life" the attack that knocked more than a million German households offline in November and added his motivation was money. The defendant, who was not named, was arrested in February at London's Luton airport on a European arrest warrant for attempted computer sabotage and extradited to Germany.
German police said the goal was to infect users' computers with a "botnet" -- a network of web-connected machines that can be manipulated with malware and used to attack other online targets.
The Briton told the court he was paid $10,000 (about 8,500 euros) by a Liberian telecom company which wanted to use the botnet to damage a rival company.
He said he had taught himself IT skills and attended a few programming courses, testifying with the help of a translator. The verdict was expected on Friday, July 28. If found guilty, he faces up to 10 years' jail in Germany.
Around a million of Deutsche Telekom's 20 million customers were unable to connect to its network for several hours last November. The attack, which the company said caused about two million Euros of damage, ended when it advised customers to disconnect their routers and restart them after a software update.
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