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DOJ Accuses Six With Crippling Rivals' Web Sites |
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- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040827S0003
August 27, 2004 - By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation's first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline. According to Attorney General John Ashcroft, six men were indicted this week by a federal grand jury in California on multiple charges for hiring hackers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against competitors.
The case illustrates the increased use of the Internet to damage rival businesses and communicate threats for commercial advantage, said Ashcroft in a statement. Jay Echouafni, 37, the chief executive officer of Orbit Communication, a satellite TV dealer in Sudbury, Mass., and his business partner, Paul Ashley, 30, were charged with hiring hackers in Arizona, Ohio, Louisiana, and the U.K. to launch relentless computer attacks against Orbit's online competitors, said Ashcroft. The remaining four indicted were the U.S. and U.K. hackers...The hired-gun hackers used bot networks, collections of previously-compromised computers, to actually conduct the DoS attacks. According to the FBI, one of the hackers controlled between 5,000 and 10,000 computers; another ruled a network of some 3,000 machines...
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