[Infowarrior] - 'We Traced the Cyberwar -- It's Coming From Inside the Country!'

[Richard Forno]

'We Traced the Cyberwar -- It's Coming From Inside the Country!'
By Kevin Poulsen EmailJanuary 24, 2008 | 2:59:34 PMCategories:
Cybarmageddon!  

A 20-year-old man named Dmitri Galushkevich is the first cyber solider to
face justice for launching one of the attacks in last year's "cyber war"
against Estonia, AFP reports.

You'll recall that Estonia blamed the Russian government for last spring's
DDoS attacks, and even considered invoking NATO Article 5 to marshal a
multinational military counter attack against Russia -- a perfectly
reasonable response to a bunch of websites being overloaded with unwanted
traffic. Wired magazine sent a reporter to Russia to try and track down the
culprits, but  Vladimir Putin's ruthless cyber brigade proved elusive.

And so it comes as quite a shock to THREAT LEVEL to learn that the  attacker
convicted today isn't a member of the Russian military, nor is he an
embittered cyber warrior in Putin's secret service. He doesn't even live in
Russia. He's an ethnic Russian who lives in Estonia, who was pissed off over
that whole statue thing.

The court fined him 17,500 kroons, or $1,620 dollars, and sent him on his
way.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/we-traced-the-c.html