Dutchman Arrested in Connection With Massive Cyberbunker DDoS Attacks
A Dutch citizen was arrested yesterday in Barcelona in connection with March DDoS attacks on behalf of rogue hosting service Cyberbunker that were aggressive enough to threaten the core infrastructure of the Internet.
A Dutch citizen was arrested yesterday in Barcelona in connection with March DDoS attacks on behalf of rogue hosting service Cyberbunker that were aggressive enough to threaten the core infrastructure of the Internet, according to a Dutch press release.
(Full disclosure: We read a computer-generated English translation.)
The house where the man, identified as S.K., was living was searched, and computers, drives and mobile phones were seized.
The attacks appear to have stemmed from a dispute between Cyberbunker hosting service and Spamhaus, an informal anti-spam group that publishes a blacklist of spammers and the services that support them.
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