http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/bobbear_ddos/



By John Leyden

The Register

17th November 2008



Unidentified miscreants have launched a denial of service attack on a 

UK-based anti-fraud website.



Bobbear.co.uk, which fights money laundering by warning about groups 

attempting to recruit mules, was left unreachable on Monday after coming 

under a distributed denial of service attack. Net security firm Sophos 

reports that the site was taken out by an assault from a botnet of 

compromised PCs that began late on Sunday. The timing of the assault 

coincides with the launch of Get Safe Online week in the UK.



It's pretty clear that Russian criminals are behind the attack and it is 

still continuing, site admin Bob Harrison told El Reg. "Undoubtedly it 

is simply a response to the work I do in highlighting the mainly Russian 

money laundering and reshipping frauds that are currently plaguing the 

internet and wrecking the lives of innumerable victims."



Harrison has reported the attack to the Met's computer crime unit and to 

Russian domains linked to the assault, more details of which can be 

found here [1].



[1] http://www.castlecops.com/t228239-bobbear_co_uk_under_fire.html



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Received on Mon Nov 17 2008 - 23:09:53 PST