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Computer Hacker Sentenced to Two Years In Federal Prison
Computer Hacker Sentenced to Two Years In Federal Prison
| Posted By:
Tami
@ Oct 7 2008, 07:36 PM |
COMPUTER HACKER SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that GREGORY KING, 21, of Fairfield, Calif., was sentenced to two years in federal prison. KING was also ordered to pay over $69,000 in restitution. Online, KING was known as Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707. He had pleaded guilty to two counts of transmitting code to cause damage to a protected computer on June 10, 2008.
This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the FBI, whose agents analyzed Internet logs, executed search warrants, performed forensic analysis of KING’s computers, and took KING’s confession.
According to Assistant United States Attorney Matthew D. Segal, who prosecuted the case, KING admitted to using a “botnet” to conduct distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS attacks) against two different business Web sites: Killanet and Castlecops. A botnet is a network of malware-infected, zombie computers (bots) that can be used to conduct DDOS attacks, send spam, and commit fraud over the Internet. Bots are also used to infect other computers and thus propagate the botnet. The owners of the infected computers do not know that their computers have been infected with “botware,” but their computers can nonetheless be secretly directed by the “bot herder,” the person in control of the botnet. In a DDOS attack, a bot herder directs the bots to flood a victim computer with information and thereby disable the target computer.
KING admitted to controlling about 7,000 bots and using them to DDOS attack Killanet and Castlecops. Killanet is an interactive forum where members could share advice on graphic design, web design, photography, and gaming and was DDOS attacked in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Castlecops is an Internet security community specializing in anti-phishing, malware analysis, and combatting spam and was DDOS attacked in 2007.
On October 1, 2007, FBI agents went to KING’s residence to arrest him. After agents knocked on the front door, KING exited the back door, hid a laptop computer in the backyard, and then returned to answer the front door. Pursuant to a search warrant, the laptop was seized and searched. It contained, among other things, botnet software and references to KING’s various Internet monikers.
U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said, “Botnets are a 21st Century menace. Hackers need to know that if they engage in this kind of conduct, they risk federal prosecution, prison, and a restitution order that will be with them for a long time.”
Official Press Release (PDF)
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Greg King Pleads Guilty
Greg King Pleads Guilty
| Posted By:
Tami
@ Jun 10 2008, 05:45 PM |
In a statement issued earlier today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, California announced that Greg King has pleaded guilty to two counts of transmitting code to cause damage to a protected computer. As part of the plea agreement Greg King agreed to a two-year US Federal prison sentence. As this is a US Federal case, Greg King will be required to serve the full sentence without parole. Actual sentencing for the case is scheduled to take place on September 3, 2008 at which time the presiding Judge may make additional conditions within the sentence, including court-ordered restitution.
I would like to personally thank both FBI Special Agent Brian Scott and U.S. Attorney Matt Segal for the work they did with us to bring this case to a close, and also FBI Special Agents Matt Perry and Bruce Barron for their initial work when we first brought the case to the FBI Sacramento office. This has been a very long and sometimes very frustrating process for those of us at KillaNet who had to deal with Greg King, his friends, and their attacks against us, and while the guilty plea almost seems anti-climatic, we are glad to see the conclusion of this case with only the official sentencing left to be finalized.
The official press release from the US Attorney's office is attached below.
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King_guilty_plea_press_release.pdf ( 27.91K )
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Just a Little Fire
Just a Little Fire
| Posted By:
Tami
@ Jun 2 2008, 05:50 PM |
...and a big explosion.
If anyone is wondering where all of our servers disappeared to, there was an electrical fire and explosion in the Houston data centre Saturday afternoon which effectively knocked the whole building offline as there was no power, and the fire department ordered the generators disconnected.
As you can tell, the centre now has power and we are once again online with all sites functioning, including the IRC. So - welcome back. 
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