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A 22 year-old man from Victoria, Australia has been arrested in Melbourne yesterday. He has been charged with several DDoS attacks which includes attacks he performed towards IRC Networks.

It was inititally the Belgian police who tipped the Australian police about the man. But also ISPs in United States, Singapore and Austria were affected by the DDoS which took place from botnets.

“Bots and bot networks continue to be of concern and are linked … to a range of other malicious activity including identity theft and spam,” said Mr Zuccato, from the Australian High Tech Crime Centre.

Lately a wave of arrests have been made regarding people using DDoS, and today a press release has been made regarding the arrest of 30 year-old Richard C. Honour, nicknamed Fyle/Anatoly from Seattle.

Honour is believed to have coded and then spread trojans over IRC. Infected PCs were supplying Honour with information such as online banking and other identity and privacy sensitive data.

“This name is not just familiar with DarkMyst, but throughout the IRC community” said Ryan, admin on DarkMyst in a reaction to IRC-Junkie. “Honours’ activities affected many IRC networks, many of which were involved in the operation and provided information that led to his arrest.”

Assuming this was a commonly known fact, it was never reported before on IRC-Junkie. But as I had contact over the past few weeks with several smaller IRC networks, it became clear not many small networks with servers.ini aspiration also realize the potential negative effects of being listed in the world largest IRC server list.

More news concerning DDoS’ers I’m afraid. Christopher Maxwell, of Vacaville California USA, 20 year-old, has been charged that he launched an DDoS attack in which he crippled a hospital. In the hospital the attack caused for the doctor’s pagers not functioning anymore as well as shutting down computers of intensive care units.

Maxwell will see his first court appearance on the 23th of this month.

The botnet is thought to have consisted of 13,000 to 50,000 infected machines which were controlled over IRC.

Although the attack heavily crippled the hospital (Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in north Seattle) nurses quickly switched to using charts and were able to prevent any human harm.

Santiago Garrido, 26 years-old, decided he would resort to DDoS after he was being banned from the Hispano IRC network. The DDoS generated caused such problems for Spanish ISP’s Wanadoo, ONO, Lleida Net and other ISP’s that 3 million users were left without connection. This equals to one third of all Spanish Internet users.

Yesterday Garrido (nicked “Ronnie” or “Mike25″) heard the sentence for his act; 2 years in jail, and a 1.4 million fine (roughly $1.6 million USD).