A federal court in Boston on Tuesday heard charges that 32-year-old John Bombard of Seminole used a variant of the Gaobot e-mail worm to turn computers–including systems at two universities whose names have not been disclosed–into an arsenal of "zombies" or "bots" that he could control remotely.
He then used this network of hijacked computers, known […]
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Published October 30th, 2006 in DDoS Criminals. 0 CommentsRussian cyber-blackmailers sent to the Gulag
Published October 9th, 2006 in DDoS Criminals. 0 Comments
Authorities in Russia have gaoled a gang of cyber-criminals who blackmailed online companies through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The gang is said to have extorted more than $5000 from British online casinos and betting shops after threatening to attack their websites and render them inaccessible to the outside world.
Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov and Denis Stepanov were […]
