VoIP hacker imprisoned
Source: voipcentral.org
Spokane, Washington-based Robert Moore who made millions of dollars from illegal VoIP business has been sentenced two years imprisonment and fined $150,000.
The 23-year old hacker was successful in hacking VoIP networks of some of the leading service providers. He developed generic software to run brute-force attacks against Cisco XM routers and Quintum Tenor voice gateways.
The brute force attacks were carried out against service provider networks to create applicable prefixes to develop VoIP services on their networks.
Robert Moore was a close associate of Edwin Pena, a 23-year-old man from Miami and the architect behind the hacking scams. He was held last year. Moore has disclosed that Pena paid him $$23,000 to hack into the carrier networks.
The criminal due has used a combination of simple dictionary and brute-force attacks in combination with Google hacking to traverse VoIP networks and pinched nearly $1 million voice minutes.
