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Jay R. Echouafni on the run

Friday, November 5th, 2004

In August this year we posted about the DDoS arranged by the owner of FooNet on request by  Jay R. Echouafni.

CIT/FooNet was a well known web and IRC hosting company based in Powell, Ohio. Echouafni allegedly paid the owner of FooNet Paul Ashley $1000,- USD for staging a DDoS attack against two competitors of him. The FBI took custody of the servers of FooNet in February this year in an investigation of the events.

Jay R. Echouafni was released on bail and it is believed he has fled to Morocco. As a reaction the FBI put Echouafni on the most wanted list.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Rizon DNS outtage was due to DDoS

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

A few days ago we reported about a DNS outage at Rizon.net. We got in contact with Ksd, a service operator at Rizon, who gave us as explanation; “The error it appears was caused because the owner of the domain filled in random letters and numbers for the contact information address which was flagged.”

After the article was posted we got a number of logs and emails showing a completely different story.

[23:07:13] someone reported our dns and dos’d the shit outta NS and client servers

[23:07:31] gay registar just froze it without emailing or anyth

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Rizon
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Extortion by DDoS

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Malicious users don’t just need no reason to launch an attack, they could also perform it for extortion. ‘Either pay up, or your online business is offline’ is the working method.

This article in the Houston Chronicle has a Steve Gibson like story detailing the story of one such attack.

More ‘good’ exposure for IRC…

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Tags: DDoS, IRC
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