VoIP Hacker Gets time in Prison and a fine and he also gives advice to service providers
A combination of simple dictionary and brute-force attacks in combination with Google hacking enabled a criminal pair to break into VoIP-provider networks and steal $1 million worth of voice minutes, says one of the duo who has pleaded guilty to his crimes.
Had his victims observed security basics, most of the attacks would have been unsuccessful, says Robert Moore, the 23-year-old hacker from Spokane, Wash., who has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and fined $150,000.
Moore says he wrote generic software to run brute-force attacks against Cisco XM routers and Quintum Tenor voice gateways to gain access to them so he could route calls through them. These devices were located in business networks, and calls were routed through them to mask that they came from gear owned by the mastermind behind Moore’s activity, Edwin Pena.
Pena was arrested last year along with Moore, but after posting bail fled the country and has not been caught.
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