Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
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#2I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#3If even Bulletproof hosts aren't safe why aren't malware authors using P2P infrastructure?
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#4I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#5I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
It’s a normal Dutch last name.
Also, the naming of the holdings is the same. So they probably registered it at the same time. Anyway, information can always be checked at the chamber of commerce
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#6"hosting all sorts of badies, from phishing pages to vulnerability scanners, and from crypto-mining operations to malware repositories."
Is crypto-mining now a bad thing or is this article leaving out some details that I'm missing?
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#7"hosting all sorts of badies, from phishing pages to vulnerability scanners, and from crypto-mining operations to malware repositories." Is crypto-mining now a bad thing or is this article leaving out some details that I'm missing?
Perhaps a virus that uses the computers of unaware victims to crypto-mine. If you infect enough people, I guess you'd stand a chance. Not sure if targeting iot would be the best move for that, and the article seems to insinuate that this was mostly iot based malware, so I don't know.
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#8I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
It costs 2.50 to check the names of the owners of these companies at the chamber of commerce if that makes you doubt whether or not it's actually the name. This means that the owners were effectively outed by the publication anyway.
Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
#9If even Bulletproof hosts aren't safe why aren't malware authors using P2P infrastructure?
My guess would be that bulletproof hosts are safe enough for long enough that it's both money and time wise better/easier to deal with than p2p.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
It costs 2.50 to check the names of the owners of these companies at the chamber of commerce if that makes you doubt whether or not it's actually the name. This means that the owners were effectively outed by the publication anyway.
Not really, the point of Dutch privacy law (and similar EU laws) in this context is not to deter a dedicated investigator, but to merely put enough of a hurdle in place that everyone reading the article won't see the names of suspects, and they won't show up in web searches etc.