Two charged over police phone DoS attacks

By Juha Saarinen on Jun 17, 2019 6:30AM

Callers responding to texts for help were played abusive recording.

A joint operation between Victorian and Australian Federal Police has resulted in the arrest for allegedly organising and participating in a large-scale denial of service attack on police phone systems in October last year. A 27 and a 28 year old man were taking into custody during search raids ...

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