Cyber Gang War: Korean Offense Brace Nabbed For Spider Web Attacks !

Several members of a Korean law-breaking gang were arrested this past times Dominicus (Jan. 9) for hiring hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against gaming sites owned past times challenger gangsters.

The Korea Times reports 4 members of a law-breaking gang based inwards Incheon, Republic of Korea hired a hacker, identified entirely every bit Park, to launch DDoS attacks that would effectively preclude a challenger gaming site from operating due to an overload of traffic.

Police also arrested Lee, (who was identified entirely past times the unmarried moniker), the caput of a reckoner server rental fellowship for participating inwards the attacks.

Park together with Lee, who managed the Incheon-based gang’s illegal gaming site, took downward 109 challenger websites betwixt Nov. 21 together with Dec. 15, 2010 past times infecting them alongside malware for 1 to 2 hours a day, the written report read.

To farther eliminate the competition, gang fellow member Yoem seat a 50,000-strong botnet of Chinese computers at Park together with Lee’s disposal. Often called “zombie” computers, botnets are a network of systems which are programmed to autonomously distribute malicious software.

Although this item cybercrime occurred inwards Korea, the nature of how it was carried out has widespread implications for all reckoner users.

Mass DDoS attacks convey been inwards the spotlight inwards recent months, specially those organized past times groups similar “Anonymous,” a network of “hacktivists” who convey launched attacks against PayPal, Amazon together with MasterCard when those companies cooperated alongside regime orders to suppress WikiLeaks.

In a Dec. ix blog, the safety theatre Sophos’ explains that several countries -- including the United States, the Great Britain together with Sweden -- all convey anti-DDoS laws on the books. In Nov 2010, an Ohio homo was sentenced to xxx months behind bars for launching DDoS attacks against the websites of Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter together with Rudy Giuliani, Sophos said.

“If you’re flirting alongside joining the ranks of the cybervandal grouping Anonymous when it urges people to bring together inwards DDoS attacks, typically inwards an try to deny gratis spoken language inwards an try to protestation the denial of gratis speech, don’t assume that you lot won’t instruct caught,” wrote Paul Ducklin, Sophos’ Asia Pacific caput of technology, on the company’s blog.

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