A 16-year-old boy arrested in London yesterday under the Computer Misuse Act is suspected of involvement in cyber attacks by both the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups, it is understood.
He was arrested at an address in south London and remains in custody at a central London police station.
Scotland Yardââ¬â¢s specialist cyber crime unit acted in cooperation with the FBI, which arrested 16 people yesterday. Dutch police also made four arrests, the Department of Justice said.
All but two of the American suspects have been indicted for involvement in a Denial of Service attack on the PayPal website in early December, which was launched by Anonymous after the online payments firm suspended the account Wikileaks used to collect public donations.
The 14, including 11 men and two women aged between 20 and 42, were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio. The court withheld the identity of one individual.
Anonymous, a collective of so-called hacktivists, viewed the suspension as an assault on internet freedom and targeted PayPal as part of ââ¬ÅOperation Avenge Assangeââ¬Â. Members used software called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon to bombard the website with traffic in an attempt to overwhelm its servers and force it offline.
Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...accused-of-Anonymous-and-LulzSec-attacks.html
He was arrested at an address in south London and remains in custody at a central London police station.
Scotland Yardââ¬â¢s specialist cyber crime unit acted in cooperation with the FBI, which arrested 16 people yesterday. Dutch police also made four arrests, the Department of Justice said.
All but two of the American suspects have been indicted for involvement in a Denial of Service attack on the PayPal website in early December, which was launched by Anonymous after the online payments firm suspended the account Wikileaks used to collect public donations.
The 14, including 11 men and two women aged between 20 and 42, were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio. The court withheld the identity of one individual.
Anonymous, a collective of so-called hacktivists, viewed the suspension as an assault on internet freedom and targeted PayPal as part of ââ¬ÅOperation Avenge Assangeââ¬Â. Members used software called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon to bombard the website with traffic in an attempt to overwhelm its servers and force it offline.
Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...accused-of-Anonymous-and-LulzSec-attacks.html
