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27 January 2006 eBay attacker owns up to 2003 hackSarah HilleyAn eBay hacker has pled guilty of launching a distributed denial of service attack against the internet auction site. Anthony Clark (21) from Oregon in America compromised 20,000 computers using a worm program in 2003. He then instructed the ‘zombie’ computers to strike eBay with a DDoS attack. Clark worked with several others to infiltrate computers with the worm that exploited the Windows Operating System Remote Procedure Call for Distributed Component Object Model, vulnerability. The hackers commanded the zombies through a password protected Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server. The zombies responded to orders to attack specific computers or networks. Clark personally gave the orders to attack eBay.com, impairing the site. His attack also damaged the zombie computers, according to the Department of Justice statement. The Judge has set 3 April for the sentencing of Clark. The maximum penalty for the crime is ten years, a $250,000 fine, and three years supervised release. The US Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force investigated the crime overseen by the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Unit. Law enforcement in other parts of the world is also making progress in cracking gangs who use zombies to do their dirty work. Dutch police arrested three young men in November who are suspected of creating a 100,000 strong network of zombie computers. The men allegedly launched a DDoS attack against an American company that they attempted to extort.
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