Spanish Hacker was sentenced to 2 years in prison for DDoS attacks

According to British security firm Sophos, Santiago Garrido, 26, has spread a network to control computers and denial of service (DDoS) attacks, causing one-third of Internet users in Gaur to be blocked. connected.

The event took place in 2003 after Garrido was expelled from IRC Hispano chat room for not complying with the rule. The incident affected about 3 million customers of service providers such as Wanada, ONO, Lleida Net . in Spain at that time.

In addition to the imprisonment, hackers nicknamed Ronnie and Mike25 were also ordered to pay damages of up to $ 1.5 million by the La Coruña district court.

' Many hackers have been using DDoS tricks to extort money from websites. In the above case, Garrido's motive was just to get revenge for being so angry about being ostracized on the chatroom , 'commented Graham Cluley, Sophos's security advisor.

According to a Sophos statistic, more than 60% of spam currently comes from zombies (computers are deeply infected and controlled by hackers) - including PCs belonging to legal organizations. This not only caused the company's reputation to be compromised but their e-mail was also blocked on many other systems.