Spanish hacker jailed and fined
Date: February 08, 2006Source: Sophos
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Garrido, who went by the aliases "Ronnie" and "Mike25", was sentenced at a court in La Coruña and also faces a $1.6 million fine.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos said,
"Many times hackers use DDoS techniques to try and blackmail the web site being attacked. On this occasion, it seems the hacker was so furious about being thrown out of a chat room that he resorted to a criminal act to wreak his revenge, and affected millions of Internet users. Hackers engaged in these kind of activities are guilty of a serious crime, and should be punished accordingly. The Spanish Civil Guard should be congratulated for seeing this case through to its conclusion."
Zombie computers can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information. Sophos estimates that more than 60 percent of all spam today originates from zombie computers.
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