[ISN] Crime ring instigates cyber attack against rival websites

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:37:32 -0600 (CST)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/113_79384.html

By Kim Rahn
The Korea Times
01-09-2011

A group of gangsters have been caught hiring hackers to make “cyber 
attacks” to shut down rival gambling websites, the first of its kind 
here.

The prosecution said Sunday that it arrested a server rental company 
head, 32-year-old Lee, and a hacker, 37-year-old Park, on charges of 
attacking gambling websites with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) at 
the instigation of gangsters who operated an illegal gambling site.

Prosecutors also suspended indicting four members of the Incheon-based 
crime ring, including 34-year-old Yeom, on charges of ordering the 
attack.

Lee and Park, who had managed the gang’s illegal gambling site, crippled 
109 rival websites by attacking them with DDoS malware for one or two 
hours every day between Nov. 21 and Dec. 15 last year.

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