UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom (bleepingcomputer.com) 26
An anonymous reader writes: "German police announced Thursday that fellow UK police officers have arrested a suspect behind a serious cyber-attack that crippled German ISP Deutsche Telekom at the end of November 2016," according to BleepingComputer. "The attack in question caused over 900,000 routers of various makes and models to go offline after a mysterious attacker attempted to hijack the devices through a series of vulnerabilities..." The attacks were later linked to a cybercrime groups operating a botnet powered by the Mirai malware, known as Botnet #14, which was also available for hire online for on-demand DDoS attacks.
"According to a statement obtained by Bleeping Computer from Bundeskriminalamt (the German Federal Criminal Police Office), officers from UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested a 29-year-old suspect at a London airport... German authorities are now in the process of requesting the unnamed suspect's extradition, so he can stand trial in Germany. Bestbuy, the name of the hacker that took credit for the attacks, has been unreachable for days."
"According to a statement obtained by Bleeping Computer from Bundeskriminalamt (the German Federal Criminal Police Office), officers from UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested a 29-year-old suspect at a London airport... German authorities are now in the process of requesting the unnamed suspect's extradition, so he can stand trial in Germany. Bestbuy, the name of the hacker that took credit for the attacks, has been unreachable for days."
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Why does every German word seem to have double the number of letters that it really needs? It has to be terribly inefficient, this from a society that is extremely efficient in most things.
That would be because you have no idea about German. Yes, German sentences tend to be a bit longer than English ones, but you can't measure efficiency this way. Also Federal Criminal Police Office in TFS is longer than Bundeskriminalamt
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Not really. There are more ch and sh sounds by vocabulary, but not necessarily in spoken language. It might be helpful to conclude the sound of German based on Hitler speeches, Höcke speeches and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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On what vocabulary do you base your assessment? "Deutsche Telekom" means literally "German Telecom" and Bundes-kriminal-amt is translated to German Federal Criminal Police Office, literally Federal Detective Office.
enjoy your stay! (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, it's hard to answer emails with those handcuffs on like that.
Here's hoping you get extradited, successfully prosecuted, and turned into a good example for aspiring black-hats.
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...but but but that would add cumbersome regulations to business and discourage innovation!
At least that's how some try to phrase it
Make it Your-self (Score:1)
So it wasn't the Russians, for once? (Score:3)
Examples:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/med... [tagesspiegel.de]
https://www.welt.de/debatte/ko... [www.welt.de]
https://www.welt.de/politik/de... [www.welt.de]
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http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-te... [dw.com] (16.02.2017)
So the constant political talking point of the "Russian" ip range, timezone, code litter is politically better to have in the international and local tech media.
If not Germans might ask about the quality of data protection and network security in Germany.
Talking about Russia keep Germany asking