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Hacker sentenced to two years in prison

by certifiedbug on October 12, 2008

in Internet Security

United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced Tuesday that Gregory King, 21, a California resident once known as “‘Silenz” “sZ” “Gregk707″ and “GregK” was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $69,000 in restitution following a guilty plea to two counts of transmitting code to cause damage to a protected computer.

The Reporter.
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_10677450

King used a botnet to conduct distributed-denial-of-service (Ddos) attacks against two Web sites. KillaNet Technologies, a British Columbia-based website for high school students preparing for careers in online media, and Castlecops security forums.

The Register, 4th October 2007.
Portrait of an (alleged) cyber bully as a young man

Certifiedbug, November 30, 2007.
FBI: Botnet Crack Down (again) in Operation Bot Roast II

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Storm Worm Alert

by certifiedbug on July 9, 2007

in Internet Security

The subject matter varies, all such emails are bad news and an attempt to get people to download an exe file.

Sample:

Virus Activity Detected!
Dear Customer,

Our robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP adress
on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with the last epidemic
of a worm which does not have official patches at the moment.

We recommend you to install this patch (< --- concealed link) to remove worm files
and stop email sending, otherwise your account will be blocked.

Postmaster

SANS: The ever morphing Storm

AusCERT: High volume of email linking to the “Storm Worm” malware

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FBI Takes Down botnet

June 13, 2007

ABC News reports the FBI has identified 1 million computer addresses that have been hacked by criminals who hijack other people’s computers, turn them into servers and use them to send out massive amounts of spam and spyware.
Story abcNews

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Latest on security update for Windows Animated Cursor Vulnerability

April 1, 2007

We have some new information tonight on the status of the security update that we’re working on that addresses the vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling.
From our ongoing monitoring of the situation, we can say that over this weekend attacks against this vulnerability have increased somewhat. Additionally, we are aware of public disclosure of proof-of-concept [...]

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Windows Animated Cursor Handling Vulnerability

March 29, 2007

Microsoft Security Advisory (935423)
Vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling
Published: March 29, 2007
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks exploiting a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles animated cursor (.ani) files. In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must either visit a Web site that contains a Web page [...]

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Storm Worm Trojan spam

January 21, 2007

This Trojan is spreading throughout the world rapidly. Once the attached file is executed, it creates a backdoor that can be used by the malware creators to take control of a system and make it part of a botnet to launch more attacks.
F-Secure has detailed information on their Blog

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Three Russian cyber-criminals jailed

October 5, 2006

According to Russian news sources, each of the three extortionists who had aimed botnet-derived DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks at targeted businesses, received eight year jail sentences.
Russian security company Kaspersky writes:
Yesterday a full stop was placed to one of the most notorious cases of cybercrime in Russia over the past few years.
Kaspersky Lab didn’t [...]

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US Attorney sends Botnet master to jail for three years

August 26, 2006

David Bowermaster, Seattle Times reports that Botnet Master Christopher Maxwell was sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Marsha Pechman, federal court in Seattle.
Maxwell pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiracy to intentionally damage a protected computer and one count of intentional computer damage that interferes with medical treatment.
He must pay [...]

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Spyware Fighter has new site

June 27, 2006

Webhelper
25 June 2006
Due to the June 2006 DDos attacks against webhelper4u.com along with the lack of security with my old hosting service, I have moved to a new hosting service that gives me the ability to fight against future DDos attacks.

More here
26 June 2006
Webhelper DollarRevenue Main Menu
Because of the June 2006 DDos attacks against [...]

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