Security News > 2021 > June > 8-month suspended sentence for script kiddie who DDoS'd Labour candidate in runup to 2019 UK general election

A British script kiddie who DDoS'd a Labour Party parliamentary candidate's website in the runup to the last general election has been banned from using the Tor browser.

Bradley Niblock, formerly the operator of the UGLegion Twitter account, pleaded guilty to two Computer Misuse Act crimes after being tracked down by Cumbria Police.

Niblock launched a DDoS assault against the website of a Labour Party candidate days before the 2019 general election, an event which press officers in central party HQ characterised as "Sophisticated and large scale cyber-attacks".

Solicitor Louise Gordon told magistrates on Niblock's behalf: "This was a case of Mr Niblock messing around on his computer. He came across Furness Academy's Twitter account. He put in a password and it worked."

Cumbria Police's Cyber and Digital Crime Unit also linked Niblock to an account that was sending menacing messages to a young woman via Snapchat after Niblock had been arrested and released under investigation for the DDoS attack.

Niblock is banned from signing up to social media platforms using "Vanity names" unless these are "Made available to the police for inspection on request" - and he is banned from deleting any "Social media content" or profiles without police permission.

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