Scots hacker student who sold malicious software to sabotage Government websites jailed
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots student who made tens of thousands of pounds from creating malicious software to sabotage websites has been jailed.Amar Tagore, 21, constructed and sold a cyber-attack programme with the capability of taking down company and government sites.
The service, designed to disrupt corporate and state-run online platforms, had hundreds of customers and earned the third-year cyber security student a total of £44,433.Tagore supplied his customers with an online tool to carry out Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks on systems that forced users to take their websites offline.
He also provided technical support to those who bought the software.Tagore, from Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, was sentenced to 21 months behind bars at Dumbarton Sheriff Court today (Wednesday).
He pleaded guilty to computer misuse charges and a breach of proceeds of crime legislation. The court heard how police were alerted to Tagore’s operation after the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) suffered several ‘DDOS’ attacks at their Job Centre site in Braintree, Essex between May and August in 2022.
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