“I am writing to this list because I no longer know where to turn” admin Anthony from Ablenet started his email to the full-disclosure list. “Over the course of the past 2 to three weeks I have watched my services on the Internet become systematically blocked and redirected by no less than 3 major isps in their efforts to stop botnets from connecting to IRC.”
UnrealIRCd has decided to make a drastic change in it’s project. They decided to, instead of writing a new Unreal4 in C++ Aspects, to instead fork InspIRCd; a completely modular IRCd that has been gaining interests over the years. This change is due in large because of Syzop going inactive (Article) and their only being one head developer (Stskeeps) left to run the projects.
“Due to recent events several ZiRC staff have decided to part ways with ZiRC,” David announced on the ZiRC website. Following a series of events this week the majority of admins (including David) decided to leave the network and form a new network named synIRC. Left behind is ZiRC with just a single server.
The events that eventually led to the departure of the admins had a start in early May of this year. Due to several events Prince, the owner of ZiRC’s domain, the server housing service, and co-owner of the network, resigned from the network.
A Romanian I.T. graduate faces court in the USA today. He has been accused of hacking systems from NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Energy Ministry as well as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center. He is accused of altering data as well as installing IRC Deamons.
Victor Faur, 22-year-old from Arad, Romania, can be convicted for 12 years in prison, and paying up to $2 million in damages as claimed by NASA for repairing their systems.
Nessun, owner of the Rizon IRC network, has been named before on this website as source of DDoS attacks. IRC-Junkie was unaware that one of the three suspects reported about in the “FBI Arrests Three Botherders” article written 10 days ago, namely Jason Michael Downey, is in fact the same Nessun.
Downey, 24, has pleaded guilty for operating a botnet and computer fraud. Asking his reasons behind performing DDoS attacks U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds heard his reply: “I was doing it because I could, more than anything,” Downey replied. “It was a dumb thing to do.”
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