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Aussie Blogger Hit With DDoS Death Threats

Posted by timothy on from the bad-childhoods-continue dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "An Australian blogger who blew the lid on emerging domain-name fraud campaigns has received death threats from the scammers. His blog and domain parking company are still being hit with a large distributed denial of service attack that has the death threats embedded as HTML links within its logs. Australia's government CERT team and the U.S. Secret Service (blog servers were hosted on U.S. soil) are pursuing the botnet's command and control servers. Ten days later, the victim is still being attacked and is fighting a cat-and-mouse game as IP address ranges change."

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  1. I am confused by bloodhawk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Huh? So now domain name parkers are considered innocent victims rather than the scumbucket profiteers that polute the web and search engines with advertisings and misleading links?

    1. Re:I am confused by bloodhawk · · Score: 1, Informative

      Maybe, but I don't think that's what the person who's the subject of the story does, so if that's what he thought was meant, he misunderstood. The subject of the article appears to offer domain registration services to third parties, along with a system for managing adverts placed on the domains prior to web sites going live.

      Actually that is EXACTLY what the subject of the story "Michael Gilmour" does. What he does may be legal but I would rank him slightly above sewer scum. He buys up domains and parks advertising on them to milk money from unsuspecting search results and mistyped domain names.

    2. Re:I am confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Wrong. Not everyone seeks to gouge the shit out of everyone else. How sad that the epitaph on the tombstone of our society will be "Well, at least they made a profit". Pathetic.

  2. Re:Interesting. by ikkonoishi · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.secretservice.gov/investigations.shtml

    Since 1984, the Secret Service's investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers and money laundering as it relates to the agency's core violations.

  3. Re:Internet toughguy syndrome by SteveTheNewbie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sadly, thats incorrect, there are cases where people have been tortured and kidnapped for messing with these criminals

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/08/hacker-reported/ is one such case, another i dont have the link for right now involved a reporters daughter being kidnapped, put on drugs and sent to work in a brothel for 5 years. The hacker con ruxcon in Australia had a talk on it last year, no country is safe when dealing with real criminals. They will find and kill you for disrupting their business.