![]() It will be interesting to see how a case run by the American authorities fares in comparison. When the German authorities tried Gembe in 2006, he managed to escape with a probational sentence, as prosecutors struggled to produce evidence of the total financial damage done by his malware around the world. ![]() According to legal documents, one of the affected companies suffered $200,000 worth of damages as a result of having their website blasted off the internet.Įchouafni is still at large, and is speculated to be residing in Morocco. Gembe and Walker are alleged to have been hired by Jay Echouafni, the owner of a Massachusetts-based satellite TV systems company, to launch DDOS attacks against business rivals. If found guilty they could face up to 15 years in prison. Gembe, now 25, and Lee Graham Walker, a 24-year-old Brit, were indicted on Thursday by a grand jury in Los Angeles, California, on counts of conspiracy and intentionally damaging a computer system. Way back in 2004, Sophos reported on the arrest of a German man accused of creating the Agobot Trojan horse, that turned PCs into a botnet of compromised computers for the purposes of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.Īxel Gembe was originally apprehended by the German authorities in the southern town of Waldshut on, and put behind bars as the authorities feared he might be planning to leave the country to avoid military service.
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