Spamhaus DDoS attack: a Dutchman arrested in Spain - Zebulon.fr

The largest DDoS attack in history! Thus the world of the web has described the attack on the Spamhaus website last month. A rebound recovery story as a prime suspect has been arrested in Spain. The Spanish authorities have revealed that it was a man of Dutch origin.

first suspect arrested in Spain in the case SpamHaus

Spanish police today arrested a Dutch man suspected to have contributed to the attack site SpamHaus last month. This site fight against spam globally was besieged by a truly global DDoS attack, even slowing Internet traffic at the planet!

This denial of service attack was generated rate data traffic of about 300 Gigabits, from more than 30,000 DNS clients! Unheard of for a cyber … Spamhaus has welcomed the arrest and hopes that the Spanish authorities and Dutch will bring out all those responsible for the cyber attack.

Dutch 35 years arrested in Barcelona

The main suspect in this case is a Dutch 35, whose identity is still secret. It was in Barcelona, ??Spain at the time of his arrest. In an ultimate provocation concern, the individual said: “I am Ministry of Telecommunications and Foreign Affairs of the Republic Cyberbunker .” At the time of his arrest, he was in a van transformed into a real basis for scanning frequencies.

Recall that CyberBunker is a former NATO bunker located in the Netherlands, in which servers are hosting . This is one of the most secure places in the world in the field of data center where there are services behind which pirates, computer nerds, hackers, etc.. hiding for their activities. The Spamhaus site had decided to cyberbunker on its blacklist, which had made mad groups in which this appears to be part Dutch.