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Suspect Arrested In Spamhaus DDoS Attack

Posted by Soulskill on from the distributed-denial-of-liberty-attack dept.

New submitter apenzott writes "According to the BBC, a Dutch citizen has been arrested by Spanish police who suspect he was behind the recent Spamhaus DDOS attack, one of the biggest such attacks ever. 'The man arrested is believed to be Sven Kamphuis, the owner and manager of Dutch hosting firm Cyberbunker that has been implicated in the attack.' According to a press release from the Dutch Public Prosecutor (Google translation of Dutch original), the 35-year-old man's computers and other devices have been seized as evidence. The man will be transferred from Spain to the Netherlands shortly. 'Spamhaus is delighted at the news that an individual has been arrested and is grateful to the Dutch police for the resources they have made available and the way they have worked with us,' said a Spamhaus spokesman."

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  1. Hangin's too good for him by soundguy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hope they hang this piece of shit up to dry and his scummy, criminal "hosting company" fades into history.

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    1. Re:Hangin's too good for him by BasilBrush · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I wonder just how much of the world's spam went through this scumbag. I'm hoping for a downturn in spam volume as this outfit is closed down.

    2. Re:Hangin's too good for him by Ossifer · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I've already had a big downturn--the news item elicited me to investigate my settings, and I found I wasn't using spamhaus properly... Now I am... Kind of an analogue to the Streisand effect...

    3. Re:Hangin's too good for him by dissy · · Score: 3, Informative

      An infected machine in my network got our company on the XBL the morning the DDOS started.

      Please stop being lazy and inconsiderate, add the two firewall rules to your router to stop attacking the internet.

      Allow outbound dest port 25 from your mail servers IP.
      DENY outbound dest port 25 (from everything else)

      You wouldn't have that problem, that infection wouldn't be attacking all of our systems, and you wouldn't be making such stupid comments about a blacklist that rightfully listed you.

  2. Re:shocker by 1s44c · · Score: 3, Informative

    That bunker and the name 'cyberbunker' are just marketing. He doesn't actually have any presence in that bunker and hasn't for years.

    The guy is a lying con-man as well as a DDOS scumbag.