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Richard “Krashed” Roby, 20 years old from Ohio pleaded guilty in federal court in Toledo to DDoS’ing online competitors of Jay Echouafni.

Jay Echouafni, a 38-year-old satellite TV salesman ordered Richard “Krashed” Roby to DDoS his competitors online. One of the other people who has been ordered to attack his competitors is Paul Ashley, who was in those days running the on IRC well known IRC shell company FOOnet. Echouafni offered Ashley 1000$ for the attacks.

As you can see in the sidebar for IRC news I collect for you, big news today. Lately there is a lot of coverage in the general media about identity theft, DDoS nets, etc. But the paper on botnets released by the Honeynet Project gave quite a boost in the number of articles today on this subject.

The paper explains in great detail a reserach the project did on botnets, and specifically those who use IRC to receive their commands from the drone-runner.

Tom Bral, 20 year-old from Oudenaarde in Belgium has been arrested in suspicion of DDoS’ing the Kreynet IRC network.

Kreynet is the base some commercial TV stations use in Belgium to host their chats. Bral, who is using the nick Inco on IRC, had an application going for a server link on Kreynet.

Bral used to have a server linked to the AfterNet network as well.

The article “Canadian teen sentenced in Randex virus case” on ITBusiness.ca reports about a 16-year-old Mississauga, Ont. who pleaded guilty ‘of mischief against data and fraudulent use of a computer.

In the same case, a 16-year-old from Scotland was sentenced to jail for 6 months. He created Randex, a virus which have infected machines connect to an IRC server so its dronerunner can issue commands like initiate DDoS attacks.

The article ends with the next paragraph: “Although the conviction ends the RCMP and Scotland Yard’s Randex investigation, Lonnee said an American fugitive used the virus to commit DDoS attacks in the United States. The FBI is currently pursuing the fugitive, who is believed to be somewhere in Morocco, he said.”

In April of this year we reported about the worldwide anti-piracy sweep in which raids took place worldwide including countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Spain, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The first defendant who got arrested in this operation is Jathan Desir, a 26-year-old from Iowa, USA. He pleaded guilty to felony information charging copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.

Desir was running or helping to run two seperate sites which were used to distribute the pirated software and music and movies. If convicted he can face a maximum jail sentence of 15 years. He will be sentenced on March 18, 2005.