Peaches Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Hackers Arrested In China After Feud Causes Major Outage DDoS feud between underground gaming services allegedly caused temporary Internet outage across more than 20 provinces Jun 04, 2009 | 04:55 PMBy Tim WilsonDarkReading Four individuals have been arrested in China after an alleged denial-of-service "war" between underground gaming services spun out of control, according to news reports. According to a report by Xinhua News Agency, China's Ministry of Public Security said Tuesday that the suspects were detained on May 29 following police investigations in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong provinces. The suspects were not named, although the surnames of two -- Xu and Wang -- were released. The ministry told the news agency that on May 19, the suspects allegedly launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the servers of DNSPod, a Chinese DNS provider and domain registrar. DarkReading for full story - http://www.darkreading.com/securityservice...ttacks/breaches Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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