U.K. convicts Anonymous member ‘Nerdo’ for DDoS attack
In its ongoing pursuit to strike back at hackers, U.K. courts have convicted a member of Anonymous for conspiracy.
A London jury found Christopher Weatherhead, a 22-year-old self described “hacktivist,” guilty of carrying out a campaign of Distributed Denial of Service attacks against major credit card companies that refused to process online donations to WikiLeaks, according to the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service. The conviction came after guilty pleas of three of Weatherhead’s co-conspirators.
“Christopher Weatherhead is a cyber criminal who waged a sophisticated and orchestrated…
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