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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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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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