A man may go to prison for attacking the sites that published their most shameful secrets A man may go to prison for attacking the sites that published their most shameful secrets
A Kansas jury has convicted a man who formed a zombie network to launch denial of service attacks to magazines and newspapers published online articles that embarrassed.
Bruce Raisley, 49, issued a malicious program on the Internet in that it creates a botnet composed of 100,000 computers infected. The botnet was the sole purpose of launching a series of attacks denial of service (DDoS) at Rolling Stone magazine, The Radar and Perverted Justice, among others.
All these magazines had published an article about him in describing a virtual affair that ended up ruining his marriage.
all started with a fight between Xavier Von Erck Raisley and leader of the group Perverted Justice, which also belonged Raisley. Group members posing as minors to discover and expose pedophiles operating on the internet.
Raisley left the group after the fight and Von Erck retaliated by pretending to "Holly", a woman seduced him on the internet. Raisley came to love and trust both in Holly that he sent explicit photos of himself and decided to leave his wife to start a serious relationship with her.
But a woman did not appear when Raisley finally going to meet in person to his new love and went to meet her at an Arkansas airport with a bouquet of flowers. In its place was a photographer hired by Von Erck who documented the disgraceful situation.
Von Erck history published in the Journal of Perverted Justice and shared with other virtual magazines and media. This public humiliation was that his wife began divorce proceedings and Raisley lost contact with his son.
was why the hacker decided to attack the websites of the journals that published his story, an action that could make it happen 10 years behind bars.
Federal agents and Slovenia CERT found that the two domains in control of the malware were registered under the name of Raisley. Authorities searched the suspect's home and found a USB storage device with the malicious program used to create the botnet.
Still, Raisley pleaded not guilty and faced a six-day trial, but a jury of 7 women and 5 men found him guilty of the charges against him. The judge shall render its decision on 7 January.
Sources: Sex, lies, and botnets: the saga of Perverted Justice
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