Press Releases
Search Warrants Executed in the United States as Part of Ongoing Cyber Investigation
FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations. Also today, the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police Service executed additional search warrants and arrested five people for their alleged role in the attacks.
These distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) are facilitated by software tools designed to damage a computer network’s ability to function by flooding it with useless commands and information, thus denying service to legitimate users. A group calling itself “Anonymous” has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they conducted them in protest of the companies’ and organizations’ actions. The attacks were facilitated by the software tools the group makes available for free download on the Internet. The victims included major U.S. companies across several industries.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/warrants_012711
Five arrested under Computer Misuse Act
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested five people in connection with offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
The five males aged, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26, are being held after a series of coordinated arrests at residential addresses in the West Midlands, Northants, Herts, Surrey and London at 07:00hrs today (27 January).
The arrests are in relation to recent and ongoing ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks (DDoS) by an online group calling themselves ‘Anonymous’.
http://cms.met.police.uk/news/arrests_and_charges/five_arrested_under_computer_misuse_act
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/01/27/met-police-arrest-five-anonymous-ddos-probe/
Update
Five arrested under Computer Misuse Act are bailed
Battle lines drawn up in cyberspace
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/anonymous_hacklash_warning/
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