Spanish authorities have arrested a man who allegedly led one of the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history.
The 35-year-old man suspect known as Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka “cb3rob” and referred to by law enforcement agencies as “S.K.,” was arrested in Spain in connection with a recent DDoS attack against anti-spam organization Spamhaus.
On Friday a statement posted on hacker web forum Pastebin confirmed his arrest, but the anonymous author demanded …

Experts have confirmed the Internet is in the midst of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in cyber history .
These recent cyber attacks affect key parts of the Internet’s infrastructure and messes up Internet speeds in several European countries.
According to Mashable, the initial fair game was Spamhaus, a European anti-spam company that blacklists emails considered as spam by its filters and sells the lists to Internet service providers (ISPs).
In mid-March, …

Security experts on Wednesday claimed that they have finally killed the world’s third-largest botnet, the Grum botnet.
In a post on their blog, security firm FireEye through its expert Atif Mushtaq announced that Grum has finally been wrestled out of the control of its creators on Wednesday.
At its most active point, the Grum botnet was sending out about 18 billion spam emails daily.
“Based on the latest statistics from M86Security, Grum is currently responsible for 17.4% of worldwide spam …