San Jose – A federal grand jury has indicted Travis Cole Malone, Jr., 20, of McAlester, Okla., on charges related to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a Bay Area company’s website.
According to the indictment, Malone coded and developed the ‘Medusa IRC Botnet DDoS’ malware, which was used in the January 2016 attack on the webservers for a San Francisco digital currency company.
Malone, who used the moniker ‘stevenkings,’ advertised the malware on various internet forums and leased access to the botnet to co-conspirators for the purpose of executing DDoS attacks.
The indictment alleges that Malone’s actions caused the transmission of code to damage protected computers and that he conspired to commit computer fraud and abuse.
Malone was arrested on August 7, 2018, and made his initial appearance in federal court in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was released on bond and is scheduled to appear in the Northern District of California on September 12, 2018, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen.
An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been committed, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
If convicted, Malone faces a maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, restitution, and forfeiture, for each violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030.
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Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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