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Sunday, April 28, 2013

They arrested the author of 'greater cyber attack in history'


An 35 Dutch was arrested in Spain on suspicion of involvement in the unprecedented cyberattack directed against a European company that monitors the web looking spam, Spamhaus, and which some slowed global Internet traffic in late March, reported Dutch prosecutors Saturday. The detainee "is suspected of involvement in the attack and that is why Dutch prosecutors ordered his arrest" he told AFP Wim de Bruin , a spokesman of the prosecution, who also said the suspect arrested on Thursday will be delivered "within soon " to the authorities of the Netherlands. In a statement the prosecution said the suspect's home was raided in Barcelona at the request of the request of the Dutch authorities and confiscated computers and cell phones. Spamhaus , a group based in Geneva which publishes the "black list" of email addresses from which you send spam and using the messaging service providers to filter those messages, suffered in late March and for several day large-scale cyber attack.Spamhaus then accused the Dutch website Cyberbunker, who had just put on the blacklist. Cyberbunker complained because Spamhaus presented it as a paradise of cybercrime and spam. Prosecutors identified the suspect with initials SK but one source familiar with the investigation confirmed to AFP that it was Sven Olaf Kamphuis , already mentioned several times in the context of this research. Kamphuis is presented on its Facebook page as "Telecommunications Minister and Foreign Affairs of the Republic Cyberbunker". 

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