TO requires years conditional against defendant Spamhaus-cyberattack – NU.nl

The Denial-of-service attack, where servers were flooded with internet traffic, and therefore no longer worked, was in 2013 the largest to date.

Not only Spamhaus experienced burden of the attack, but also millions of random internet users had connection problems, because critical infrastructure targets.

Spamhaus is an organization whose goal is to spam out e-mailinboxen to fend off. K. would a British friend had been assigned to the attack, after his internet company Cyberbunker by Spamhaus on a black list. K. says are innocent and only zijlings involved with the group that Spamhaus attacked.

The laid K. already a settlement proposal, but that he has denied, said his lawyer Marcel van Gessel against NU.nl. K. insisted that he would be acquitted. He was already 55 days in custody. Who wants TO subtract a conditional prison sentence of one year, which makes 310 days remaining.

Narko

In 2013, did the hacker himself in various interviews as the spokesman for Stophaus, the organization that the attack had claimed. He said that Spamhaus “impact abused”.

The attacks were carried out by a British teenager who lay under the hackersnaam ‘Narko’, as suggested By Gessel Tuesday during a hearing in the district court of Dordrecht. The Brit, who, at the time of the attack, still a minor, was previously a community service of 240 hours. K. was Tuesday, not present at the hearing.

Accessory

According to the Public Ministry was the 39-year-old K. a fellow perpetrator of the DDoS attack and the so-called ‘BGP hijacking‘, in which internet traffic is redirected to the disrupt. He would Narko in chats, have attributed the cyberattack.

“He initiated, caused, contributed to, advised, commented on and was certainly not only a discussion partner,” said prosecutor Dirk Jan Laman.

According to Van Gessel, there was no question of a close and conscious cooperation” between the two, and the Briton, therefore, only be held responsible for the cyberattack.

The lawyer of K. argued in addition that the BGP hijacking was not criminal, because the consequences for Spamhaus “minimal, if not negligible”. According to Van Gessel came to the organization until some time after the attack to know that this actually happened.

Hackersbusje

K. was at the beginning of 2013 by the Spanish police arrested in his apartment in the city of Granollers. The newspaper El País reported at the time that K. among residents, especially known for his bright orange ‘hackersbusje,” which was equipped with all sorts of computer equipment.

The court’s 14 november ruling.

By: NU.nl/Jeroen Crane