The British police in april of this year, a sixteen-year-old British school pupil arrested on suspicion of involvement in the ddos-attack on spambestrijder Spamhaus. Now the defendant is on bail is free, why the arrest until now, a secret is kept, is not published.
The British police got the boy in the visor, because there was reportedly significant flows of money through his account ran, reports the Evening Standard. What his role was in the attack is not clear. His arrest was part of an international action against organised crime. In the same case was also the 35-year-old Dutchman Sven Olaf K. is arrested in Spain. He is also suspected of involvement in the ddos-attack and is on the Netherlands delivered. K. denies itself for the attack to be involved and is now back on free feet.
Spamhaus is an organization that a black list is a record of providers who are responsible for a lot of spam. After Spamhaus the isp Cyberbunker of K. on the site would have responded with a ddos attack. With the help of Cloudflare would be the site finally went online are gone. The attack was made with a 300 gigabit per second, according to some, the largest ddos attack ever.
To this speed to achieve was dns amplification applied. In the attack were an awful lot of dns requests to different dns resolvers sent. The attackers spoofden the ip address of Spamhaus, causing all of the dns reply’s to the ip address of Spamhaus were sent. By reducing the amount of data of a dns reply is larger than the dns request, is the power of the ddos attack as enlarged.
Update, Friday, 14:41: this article was initially that Cyberbunker is behind the attack was. That is only a suspicion. The article is updated accordingly.