Spam Haus, Cloud Flare Attacker Pleads Guilty
Summary: A 17-year-old from London pleaded guilty on Dec. 10 to computer misuse and money laundering charges for the 2013 distributed denial-of-service attack on SpamHaus and CloudFlare, which the New York Times called the largest known DDoS attack on the Internet at the time. KrebsOnSecurity identified him as Sean Nolan McDonough, known by the alias "Narko," who was listed as a moderator of the forum Stophaus[dot]com that took credit for organizing the attack.
Key Takeaway: Neustar's Rodney Joffe estimates roughly 25 million misconfigured or outdated home and business routers can be conscripted into such attacks, and he says a few hundred infected PCs plus 100,000 of those routers is enough to take the bigger sites offline.
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