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DDoS'er of IRC network arrested
Posted: Asmo @ Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:27 am
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.
"He used to say how he was very very dedicated to Afternet... but then we had some attacks on a testlink that some of us thought was just a little too good for INCO who was not well liked" AfterNet coordinator Rubin told IRC-Junkie in a reaction. "He was a pretty incompetent admin/oper ... always abusing the mailing list with drama and off topic posts. Its scary to think he had access to our hidden hubs IP's."
Although AfterNet never found any hard proof for DDoS from Bral, eventually his position was unmaintainable and his server and O:line got removed from the network.
In a reaction to AfterNet a Kreynet official spoke of two attacks, one of 1,5 hours and the other 3 hours, with 600MB of traffic during the DDoS attack. Kreynet will also have to pay the excessive traffic to its provider.
In an online Belgian newspaper Bral also has been named as a possible member of a worldwide network of people who attacked Microsoft.
The lawyer of Bral titled the actions of his client as 'mischief' and only being investigated as his client is also named as a possible attacker of Microsoft.
We also tried to contact a Kreynet official, but have had no response.
That guys from Oudenaarde, Belgium and he got arrested, everywhere and anywhere you are DDOSing is illegal, believe it or not. And ddosing someones home computer and/or businness computer is just as illegal, this is what the 'hackers black book' and other such stuff does not want you to know, and I'm sorry if I'm going against what you said Baseballl just wanted to note it was illegal pretty much all over the world (and before anyone says anything it is currently--as far as I know--possible to be arrested in the following places):
Gemany, Australia / NZ, US, Canada, Mexico, Basically anywhere in the North and South Americas, 50/50 in Europe (Although they have more penalties not sure on exacts depending where), and somewhat in Middle East and surrounding areas. Believe it or not they are beginning to crack down, although no one wanted to admit it until lately, there has been an increase in crackdowns on Suspected/True DDOS Hackers/Crackers, etc, in the last four to six years. If you wish to verify this you can look around MSN, IRC Addict, and other such sites. People are not stupid anymore, the worlds growing and times are changing, not only is it wrong but it is illegal and has capital penalties almost anywhere in the world.
~ Kimojuno