British Teen Arrested In Connection With DDoS Attack On Spamhaus

You might know about the biggest DDos attack which was targeted on Anti Spam service Spamhaus in march and still the investigation is in process.  British police secretly arrested a 16 year old teen who was found in connection with DDos attacks. The unnamed kid was picked up during "Operation Rashlike" after police connected his Internet activity to certain forums, according to The Evening Standard, the first outlet to be told about the story. During the arrest , the suspect was found with his computer system logged on to various virtual machines and his bank account has a significant amount of money which a 16 year old kid should not have.



If you don't know about the 19 march DDos attack so let me recall that one more time. This DDos attack was biggest in history which caused the worldwide impact including various UK’s server. Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, a San Francisco-based firm that has been helping Spamhaus over the past few days, said that the attacks generated up to 300Gbps of DDoS traffic that was about three times bigger than the biggest DDos attack ever greater than 4Gbps to 10 Gbps.

There was one other suspect arrested for Spamhaus attack , a 35 year old Dutch national Seven Olaf Kamphuis , who was considered as the ringleader for this attack. These suspects are still not confirmed officially as they were found only related to these attacks, According to Britain's National Crime Agency , This type of huge attack was done by group of IT professionals which includes more than 2 people, so still they have to find other suspects in the connection.