The owner of Cybersecurity firm BackConnect turned from cyber defender to cyber criminal – He is now reaping what he sowed.
A Macon, Georgia-based businessman, Tucker Preston, has confessed to co-founding a cybersecurity firm BackConnect with the mission of protecting firms from distributed denial of service attacks or as commonly known as DDoS attacks but eventually hiring cybercriminals to launch DDoS attacks against a New Jersey-based company.
Preston, reportedly, paid cybercriminals for this DDoS-for-hire service in which series of attacks were launched between Dec 2015 and Feb 2015. Perhaps, Preston took his company’s mission statement of setting “new industry standard in DDoS mitigation” a bit too seriously.
It is worth noting that in DDoS attacks, a website is bombarded with a high volume of internet traffic until it stops functioning and eventually goes offline.
According to blogger Brian Krebs, Preston was accused of targeting an unidentified firm with DDoS attacks by a New Jersey court. The 22-year old has pleaded guilty [PDF] to one count of causing damage to protected computers through transmitting a command, program, or code and incurring damage of up to $5,000 to the targeted company.
See: Authorities seize 15 popular DDoS-for-hire websites
He can get up to 10 years of jail time and around $250,000 in fine or tw ..
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