Dutchman Arrested in Spamhaus DDoS
Summary: A 35-year-old Dutchman identified by Dutch prosecutors only as "SK" was arrested in Barcelona by Spanish authorities on a European warrant and had computers and mobile phones seized from his residence, in connection with massive attacks against the anti-spam organization Spamhaus. The dispute began when Spamhaus blacklisted Internet address ranges belonging to Cyberbunker, a Dutch bulletproof hosting provider housed in a five-story NATO bunker, and the attack traffic began hours after the last upstream provider cut Cyberbunker's connections.
Bottom line: The attack was described as the largest publicly announced online attack in the history of the Internet, and it followed directly from one hosting provider losing its upstream connections - a reminder that the retaliation came from an actor who claimed his own jurisdiction and diplomatic immunity.
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