Hacker Paid in Dodgy Web Tools for U.S. Attack

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via The New Zealand Herald.

[snip]

The American man jailed yesterday for hacking a University of Pennsylvania
computer server "effectively hired" a New Zealand teenager to carry out an
attack on internet chat groups, a prosecutor says.

Ryan Goldstein, 22, a student at the university, online offered Whitianga
teenager Owen Thor Walker log-in rights to a website and malicious "trojan
horse" software, Michael Levy, chief of computer crimes with the US
Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

In return Walker, known online as AKILL, agreed to train his botnet on
Goldstein's targets.

"Did he pay him? It's in internet currency: 'Here's some tools for your kit
bag,"' he said. "Did he send him money through this Paypal account? No."

Internet news website NetworkWorld.com said [1] today Goldstein wanted to
wage an online war with three IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks and a
now-defunct website called ssgroup.org,

He was angry after being banned from at least one of the forums, and he
talked the 18 year-old New Zealander into launching a distributed
denial-of-service attack against these networks.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10539
102

[1]
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/102208-student-gets-jail-for-crashing
.html

See also:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ict-news/news/article.cfm?c_id=55&objectid=105390
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- - ferg

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