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Three Years Jail for DDoSer

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Christopher Maxwell, 21, of Vacaville, California, has been sentenced to jail for three years. IRC-Junkie reported about him being charged in february of this year.

Aside of the hospital other networks that were affected included the department of defense and a California school district.

He would rent out his network to perform DDoS attacks, and the infected machines earned him money with showing advertisements.

The judge showed little sympathy for Maxwell, calling him “incredible self-centered” with little regard for the impact of his actions on others. She also wanted Maxwell to be set as “deterrence for all those youth out there who are squirreled away in their basements hacking”.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, Scum
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Bali Bomber used IRC to Promote Terrorism

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Indonesian police arrested two Indonesian men, Agung Setyadi (31) and M. Agung Prabowo (24), after they learned they have been chatting on IRC with Imam Samudra who is awaiting execution for organizing the Bali terrorist attack.

How Imam Samudra has exactly been able to connect to the Internet is not made public, but it in the Indonesian press it is thought that a laptop and GSM phone have been smuggled into the prison. Such items are disallowed possessions for prisoners however, and it is also unclear how the guards have not noticed these items afterwards.

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Tags: IRC, Scum
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Winbot Goes Opensource

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

“Up until a few years ago, I maintained the project which you can find on this site: Winbot – A windows IRC bot. In 2005, the Winbot project dropped off the face of the earth due to the fact I no longer had time to maintain it, and was no longer using windows as my operating system. I have promised for quite a while now that I would release Winbot as open source, so here it is” Winbot developer Craig Edwards announced on the Winbot website.

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Tags: IRC, Software, WinDrop
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MS06-040 Used by Botherders

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Machines connected to the Internet and not having installed patch MS06-040 released by Microsoft last week are now vulnerable for being hijacked by a new worm, a variant of the Mocbot trojan. This first appeared in August 2005 as the Zotob-worm.

Security firms expect this worm-attack to grow like a big one, despite this worm seemingly only to attack Windows 2000 machines.

Once installed into the system, the bot will connect to an IRC server and wait there for commands from the dronemaster. The hosts in question are bbjj.househot.com:18067 and ypgw.wallloan.com:18067.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC
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