FBI adds DoS attacker to most wanted list
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:15 am
FBI adds DoS attacker to most wanted list
But he's run off...
Written by Dan Ilet
The FBI has added a new kind of criminal to its most wanted list - a man on the run accused of hiring hackers to damage the businesses of his competitors.
According to the FBI website, Saad /cookie!.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(jay)' /> Echouafni, who is listed with the likes of armed robbers, bombers and drug dealers, is said to have caused damage ranging from $200,000 to more than $1m.
The authorities currently believe he could have fled to Morocco, his home country.
Thirty-five year old Echouafni, who was the head of a satellite reseller company called Orbit Communications, is wanted on computer intrusion charges for allegedly hiring hackers to launch attacks against the company's competitors.
A Los Angeles court indicted Echouafni in August this year after a police investigation called Operation Cyberslam. The court heard a digital recorder salesman complain that his website had been hit by distributed-denial-of-service attacks for two weeks.
Security company F-Secure archived a copy of the now redundant Orbit Communications Web site, which displayed a message from Echouafni that read: "Even as you read this message, breakthroughs are being made every day that will make life easier for us all."
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But he's run off...
Written by Dan Ilet
The FBI has added a new kind of criminal to its most wanted list - a man on the run accused of hiring hackers to damage the businesses of his competitors.
According to the FBI website, Saad /cookie!.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(jay)' /> Echouafni, who is listed with the likes of armed robbers, bombers and drug dealers, is said to have caused damage ranging from $200,000 to more than $1m.
The authorities currently believe he could have fled to Morocco, his home country.
Thirty-five year old Echouafni, who was the head of a satellite reseller company called Orbit Communications, is wanted on computer intrusion charges for allegedly hiring hackers to launch attacks against the company's competitors.
A Los Angeles court indicted Echouafni in August this year after a police investigation called Operation Cyberslam. The court heard a digital recorder salesman complain that his website had been hit by distributed-denial-of-service attacks for two weeks.
Security company F-Secure archived a copy of the now redundant Orbit Communications Web site, which displayed a message from Echouafni that read: "Even as you read this message, breakthroughs are being made every day that will make life easier for us all."
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