“Phenom Booter” cripples shooter.
A Manchester teenager was arrested after preventing thousands of players from logging on to Call of Duty using a DDOS program.
The 17 year-old was arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act after using his own malicious Denial of Service program, called Phenom Booter, to prevent others from playing Activision’s FPS online.
Scotland Yard’s Central e-Crime Unit traced the teenager’s IP address after Activision contacted the police in September.