Hacker Behind Biggest Internet Attack Ever Arrested

DDOS-attackAre you tired of only hearing about DDoS attacks and not any kind of justice or arrests? This is for you.

After an advanced form of DDoS attack was used to create the largest internet attack in history, authorities were able to arrest a hacker suspected of initiating the attack.

While this group has not been tied to the DDoS attacks recently mounted against American financial institutions, and a single hacker is merely a drop in the proverbial bucket, it is still nice to see a win in the good guys’ column.

The suspect was arrested in Spain in what appears to be a van that also served as a “mobile office.”

Two reasons why you care about this:

1. Do you use any kind of spam filter to protect your business’ email traffic? Spamhaus, a European spam watchdog company, may provide their black list to your spam filtering solution. The feud between Spamhaus and CyberBunker is a ideological one that has turned into a cyber battle. This attack also shows the power and brazen attitude hackers take toward internet security.

2. The DDoS attack method was of a very advanced nature. In addition to typical DDoS attack methodology, the attackers utilized another, more complicated method of attack. Basically the hackers used DNS server to amplify their requests of the site under attack causing an exponential growth in the number of requests. This is of concern because DNS is an essential infrastructure of the internet.

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