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After three very long years, charges were laid today against Gregory King of Fairfield, California for the DDoS attacks and hacking attempts he directed at KillaNet Technology.
As many of the KillaNet regulars and friends know, Mr. King caused thousands of dollars in losses of time and content through many attacks against our webserver. An official file was opened with the FBI in October 2004, and his computers were seized in December, 2004. However it was not until today that Greg King was officially indicted, arrested and charged by the US State Attorney's office.
Three counts of charges pertaining to the "transmission of code to cause damage to a protected computer" in regards to KillaNet and one count of the same charge in regards to CastleCop.com were read in US Federal court earlier this afternoon.
The official press release:
McGREGOR W. SCOTT United States Attorney Eastern District of California
Sacramento 501 I Street, Suite 10-100 Sacramento, CA 95814
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INDICTMENT AND ARREST FOR COMPUTER HACKING
SACRAMENTO -- United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today the arrest of GREG KING, 21, of Fairfield, California, and the unsealing of an Indictment returned on September 27, 2007, charging KING with four counts of electronic transmission of codes to cause damage to protected computers.
This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to Assistant United States Attorney Matthew D. Segal, a prosecutor with the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office who is handling the case, the Indictment alleges that KING used a “botnet” to attack computer servers. A botnet is a network of infected computers that, unbeknownst to their owners, are compromised by a hacker and programmed to respond to a hacker’s commands. The infected computers are referred to as “bots,” “zombies,” or “drones.” According to documents filed with the court, KING allegedly controlled over seven thousand such “bots” and used them to conduct multiple distributed denial of service attacks against websites of two businesses. In a distributed denial of service attack, a hacker directs a large number of infected computers (“bots”) to flood a victim computer with information and thereby disable the target computer. On the Internet, KING was also known as “Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707.”
When agents went to arrest KING at his residence this morning, KING went out the back door of the residence carrying a laptop computer, depositing it in the bushes in the backyard. Agents obtained a warrant to search KING’s backyard and seized the computer. KING was arrested and is expected to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Sacramento at 2:00 p.m. today.
The maximum statutory penalty for a violation of transmission of damaging code to a protected computer is ten years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. However, the actual sentence will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables, and any applicable statutory sentencing factors.
The charges are only allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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After three very long years, charges were laid today against Gregory King of Fairfield, California for the DDoS attacks and hacking attempts he directed at KillaNet Technology.
As many of the KillaNet regulars and friends know, Mr. King caused thousands of dollars in losses of time and content through many attacks against our webserver. An official file was opened with the FBI in October 2004, and his computers were seized in December, 2004. However it was not until today that Greg King was officially indicted, arrested and charged by the US State Attorney's office.
Three counts of charges pertaining to the "transmission of code to cause damage to a protected computer" in regards to KillaNet and one count of the same charge in regards to CastleCop.com were read in US Federal court earlier this afternoon.
The official press release:
McGREGOR W. SCOTT United States Attorney Eastern District of California
Sacramento 501 I Street, Suite 10-100 Sacramento, CA 95814
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INDICTMENT AND ARREST FOR COMPUTER HACKING
SACRAMENTO -- United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today the arrest of GREG KING, 21, of Fairfield, California, and the unsealing of an Indictment returned on September 27, 2007, charging KING with four counts of electronic transmission of codes to cause damage to protected computers.
This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to Assistant United States Attorney Matthew D. Segal, a prosecutor with the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office who is handling the case, the Indictment alleges that KING used a “botnet” to attack computer servers. A botnet is a network of infected computers that, unbeknownst to their owners, are compromised by a hacker and programmed to respond to a hacker’s commands. The infected computers are referred to as “bots,” “zombies,” or “drones.” According to documents filed with the court, KING allegedly controlled over seven thousand such “bots” and used them to conduct multiple distributed denial of service attacks against websites of two businesses. In a distributed denial of service attack, a hacker directs a large number of infected computers (“bots”) to flood a victim computer with information and thereby disable the target computer. On the Internet, KING was also known as “Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707.”
When agents went to arrest KING at his residence this morning, KING went out the back door of the residence carrying a laptop computer, depositing it in the bushes in the backyard. Agents obtained a warrant to search KING’s backyard and seized the computer. KING was arrested and is expected to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Sacramento at 2:00 p.m. today.
The maximum statutory penalty for a violation of transmission of damaging code to a protected computer is ten years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. However, the actual sentence will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables, and any applicable statutory sentencing factors.
The charges are only allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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