I have a problem last week my cousin (11 years old) contacted me that he was being bullied.
Then I got out of my way the whole time and he wrote a number on WhatsApp that he did not know according to his statements.
He often plays fortnite and exchanges social contacts with others of his age there, which I had always warned him about because you can never know that on the net and there are a bunch of bad people now he has the salad.
Back to the topic
He is insulted by this number and threatened with DDOS attacks if he blocks this number, writes another number or this number unlocks itself again.
How does such a ddos attack via mobile phone work? This is only known to me in the PC industry and how can you counteract it
I think he has learned his lesson for now, but that has to be stopped somehow
I don't think there's a little boy behind it that seems to me to be an experienced "hacker" if you can call it that.
And I don't have the knowledge to help him there and I can't influence what his mother allows him and what isn't. He just confided in me out of shame.
If necessary, he can be given a new phone number, then the clown can write as much as he wants.
Did your cousin click on a legitimate link from the number?
If so, he has the router IP address and can dose him.
What you should do:
You should block the number FIRST.
Then you should restart its router (this will give the router a new IP)
I had already considered that
I can't say that exactly. How does this actually work via cell phone and what can happen in the worst case?
But if he writes about other numbers or can even unblock himself, it's actually too late, right?
So assuming the guy has the IP address then I can almost only think of a DdoS attack. With a DdoS attack, the WLAN is gone for a while, but that depends on the attack. So if the router is stronger than the attack then everything is okay and the router stays online.
The worst case:
Your router is down and the time is only ever visible to the attacker. If your cousin is with 1&1 he has a ping protection. If he has it, he is immune to DdoS attacks anyway.
You are with a different provider, I think telekom
