The US arrested the VoIP hackers

A man in Miami (USA), yesterday, was convicted of stealing more than 10 million VoIP minutes and reselling for $ 0.004 a minute.

The indictment of the US prosecutor affirmed that Edwin Pena paid a hacker named Robert Moore a sum of about $ 20,000 to help him illegally navigate phone calls over the Internet on the network. of 15 different VoIP service providers.

Pena is a fake telecom service provider herself, while using hacking techniques to attack VoIP networks, steal service time and total value. up to 300,000USD.

The US prosecutor agency forced Pena into crimes of illegal intrusion into network systems.

Starting in November 2004, the 23-year-old man sold telecommunications services over the Internet for a very cheap price through his two companies, Fortes Telecom Inc. and Miami Tech & Consulting Inc.

Pena and Moore were accused of building a web server to hide denial-of-service activities and attacks on VoIP providers' networks to gain access to legitimate VoIP calls. Once the security code has been broken, the two criminals will redirect their calls through legitimate VoIP networks.

As a result, two criminals have collected revenue of more than $ 1 billion.

Hoang Dung