Prosecutors in the Netherlands just announced the arrest of the chief suspect in the massive cyber attacks that took place last month against European spam-fighting organization Spamhaus, which some security experts called the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in internet history. The suspect's name hasn't been released, only his initials, "SK," and age, 35. But the Dutch public prosecution service said in a news release that he was picked up by authorities in Spain and is being transferred to the Netherlands, "suspected of unprecedented heavy attacks," on not only Spamhaus, but "partners in the United States, the Netherlands and Great Britain." Authorities in Spain also searched the house where the suspect was...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4270846/dutch-suspect-sk-arrested-spamhaus-cyberbunker-ddos-attacks
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