Spam no more: ‘Biggest’ cyber-attack in history grips web

March 27th, 2013

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The ‘biggest cyber-attack in history’ has caused a worldwide web slowdown as the battle between an anti-spam group and a Dutch web host continues to heat up.

The largest known distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in
history was sparked when the non-profit group Spamhaus placed
CyberBunker on a real-time blacklist of sites to be blocked for
spreading spam earlier this month.

The (DDoS) attacks – which flood targeted web servers with fake
traffic to make them inaccessible – have reportedly caused millions
to experience delays with services such as the Netflix
video-streaming service and made other sites temporarily
unavailable. Experts fear the web congestion could lead to banking
and email system slowdowns around the world.

Spamhaus servers were at one point being inundated with 300 billion
bits per second (300Gbps) of data, three times larger than the
previous record attack of 100 Gbps, Darren Anstee from Arbor
Networks Solutions told IBTimes UK.

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Spamhaus, which helps email providers filter out spam and other
questionable content, first reported the attacks on March 20.

Steve Linford, chief executive for Spamhaus, told the BBC that
this scale of attack could knock down government Internet
infrastructure.

“If you aimed this at Downing Street they would be down
instantly,” he said. “They would be completely off the
Internet.”

Linford noted that “when there are attacks against major
banks, we’re talking about 50 gbs.”

Five separate cyber-police-forces are investigating the incident,
he added, though he could not disclose any further details.

Spamhaus further accused Cyberbunker of collaborating with criminal
gangs from Eastern Europe and Russia to carry out the attacks.

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Cyberbunker, which operates out of a “secretive nuclear
bunker,” prides itself on rebuking “authorities regarding
the rights of individuals.” The firm, which boasts they will
provide bandwidth to anything but child pornography or terrorism
related content, has also developed a reputation for hosting spam
sites.

Sven Olaf Kamphuis, an internet activist and self-described
spokesman for Cyberbunker, said the ongoing attack was retaliation
for Spamhaus “abusing their influence,” the New York Times
cites him as saying.

However, later on Wednesday Kamphuis told RT that Cyberbunker
was not currently carrying out DDos attacks against Spamhaus.

“At this moment we are not even conducting any attacks
because our people from our group stopped any attack yesterday
morning so if they are still under attack which I think they are
because I get news feeds that they are still under attack then it’s
now other people attacking them.”

“Nobody ever deputised Spamhaus to determine what goes and
does not go on the internet,” Kamphuis said. “They worked
themselves into that position by pretending to fight spam.”

But Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at Akamai Networks, a
digital content provider, told the NYT that Cyberbunker were simply
lashing out for being exposed.

”These guys are just mad. To be frank, they got caught. They
think they should be allowed to spam,” he said.

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