Dshocker theTeenage Bot Herder Caught Red Handed

A teenager from Boston pleaded guilty and was charged for hacking and making fake emergency phone calls in order to disrupt his victims lives. At the tender age of 16 the boys name was not revealed by authorities. Nevertheless our teenage hacker, better known as Dshocker, still has to face the consequences of his actions.

According to the U.S Department of Justice, the juvenile launched a series of cyber attacks from a botnet consisting of thousand of infected PC's under his control. The boy was also found to be using stolen credit cards. Dshocker was also charged with "swatting". Swatting is a term used in the field of information security, for an effort to deceive an emergency service into sending out an emergency response team.

Swatters utilize legal phone-spoofing cards to make it seem as though they are dialing emergency 911 dispatch lines directly form the homes of their victims. The FBI has been tracking these swat attacks for a while now and found that they are mainly induced to cause chaos for the targeted victims by having the SWAT team popping up at their door steps.

Detectives were able to trace Dshocker's malicious activities back to 2005, when he was just 13 years old. Talk about a brilliant child! Dshocker was eventually, in a plea-bargain agreement, sentenced to an 11-month detention facility after pleading guilty to hacking and fraud charges. Lucky for Dshocker, he's still a juvenile otherwise he would be facing a prison sentence of up to10 years.

In a statement by the Department of Justice released on Tuesday, it was mentioned that Dshocker's swatting antics created a serious risk of physical harm to many innocent victims, and the numerous bomb threats brought about widespread disruptions to important public services. Poor kid he probably thought it was a good joke.