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| DATE | 2013-04-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Got the Bastard
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Lets see if we can use the Motha' for a honey pot and nail the rest of
his racist lackys
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/technology/dutch-man-said-to-be-arrested-in-powerful-internet-attack.html?hp&_r=0
April 26, 2013
Dutch Man Said to Be Held in Powerful Internet Attack
By NICOLE PERLROTH
Dutch authorities say police officials in Spain have arrested a man
believed to be connected to an online attack on a spam-fighting site
that snarled the Internet last month.
While the authorities did not give the full name of the man in a
statement published on a Dutch government Web site, they identified him
as "SK" A source close to the investigation, who was not
authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that the arrested man was Sven
Olaf Kamphuis, a 35-year-old Dutch man who has been the spokesman of a
group that was protesting a European antispam group's tactics.
Spanish police arrested the man on Thursday at his home in Barcelona, at
the request of the Dutch police, and seized his computers and mobile
phones. He is expected to be sent to the Netherlands. Wim de Bruin, a
spokesman for Dutch national prosecutor's office, said
"S.K." was suspected of playing a role in a wave of attacks last
month.
His arrest came after an investigation by authorities in the Netherlands
and other European countries into Mr. Kamphuis's involvement in one
of the largest attacks on the Internet. Mr. Kamphuis has been suspected
of starting a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack against
Spamhaus, the antispam group. Such attacks are a criminal offense under
Dutch law.
Mr. Kamphuis calls himself the "minister of telecommunications and
foreign affairs for the Republic of CyberBunker." But many consider
him to be the Prince of Spam. He runs CB3ROB, an Internet service
provider, and CyberBunker, a Web hosting company that in the past has
hosted sites like WikiLeaks and the Pirate Bay, a site accused of
abetting digital content piracy.
Antispam groups say they believe CyberBunker acts as a conduit for vast
amounts of spam. Last month, Spamhaus, an antispam group based in
Geneva, added CyberBunker to its blacklist, which is used by major
e-mail providers to block spam.
In the days and weeks after the blacklisting, Spamhaus was targeted with
an DDoS attack, which flooded the site with traffic until it fell
offline.
After Spamhaus hired a Silicon Valley Internet security firm,
CloudFlare, to defend against the attack, the attackers turned their ire
on CloudFlare. When efforts to bring down CloudFlare were unsuccessful,
the attackers hit back with a far more powerful strike that exploited
the Interne's core infrastructure, called the Domain Name System,
or D.N.S.
Their attack quickly reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a
data stream of 300 billion bits per second, which resulted in slowing
Internet traffic for millions of Internet users around the world.
Mr. Kamphuis has denied his role in the attack and said he was only a
spokesman for Stophaus, a loose organization set up to take down
Spamhaus. Asked about his involvement in the attacks last month, Mr.
Kamphuis told The New York Times, "We are aware that this is one of
the largest DDoS attacks the world has seen so far, yes."
But through his Facebook page, Mr. Kamphuis has actively called on
hackers to take Spamhaus offline.
"Yo anons, we could use a little help in shutting down illegal
slander and blackmail censorship project "spamhaus.org," which
thinks it can dictate its views on what should and should not be on the
Internet," he said on Facebook on March 23.
Dutch prosecutors singled out Mr. Kamphuis because of his vocal role.
Greenhost, a Dutch Internet hosting service, said in a blog post that it
had found CB3ROB" digital fingerprints while studying the attack
traffic directed at Spamhaus.
Mr. Kamphuiss arrest in Barcelona was made through the European
Unions judicial collaboration unit, Eurojust.
An anonymous statement was posted to Pastebin, a Web forum for hackers,
on Friday, proclaiming Mr. Kamphuiss innocence and threatening
another round of attacks if he is not released. We demand u to
release Sven or we will indeed start the biggest attack u humans have
ever experienced toward The Internet, and yourself, the hacker
wrote.
Eric Pfanner contributed reporting.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 26, 2013
An earlier version of the Web summary on this article misstated who had
arrested a man believed to be connected to an online attack. Dutch
authorities announced the development, but it was Spanish police who
made the arrest, they said, not the Dutch.
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