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Crime ring instigates cyber attack against rival websites
2011-01-10 07:37

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/113_79384.html By Kim Rahn The Korea Times 01-09-2011 A group of gangsters have been caught hiring hackers to make “cyber attacks” to shut down rival gambling websites, the first of its kind here. The prosecution said Sunday that it arrested a server rental company head, 32-year-old Lee, and a hacker, 37-year-old Park, on charges of attacking gambling websites with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) at the instigation of gangsters who operated an illegal gambling site. Prosecutors also suspended indicting four members of the Incheon-based crime ring, including 34-year-old Yeom, on charges of ordering the attack. Lee and Park, who had managed the gang’s illegal gambling site, crippled 109 rival websites by attacking them with DDoS malware for one or two hours every day between Nov. 21 and Dec. 15 last year. [...]


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