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A Web site that earned an enterprising British student, named Alex Tew,
$1 million suffered a crippling attack by ransom-seeking hackers.
Alex Tew, 21, said that his Million Dollar Homepage was targeted after
he publicized how it had helped him raise money for his university
studies.
Tew had sold 10,000 small squares of advertising space on the Web site
for $100 each, achieving his target in four months. His initiative spawned
several copycat sites.
But Tew said that on Jan. 7, he received a threat from an organization
calling itself "The Dark Group," demanding that he pay them $50,000 within
72 hours or face having his site taken down.
"It was written in poor English, but the hackers asked for $50,000,
saying that it was just 5 percent of what I had made," Tew said. "I did
not reply to the e-mail. I had no intention of paying."
Tew ignored the threat. Hackers then initiated a so-called distributed
denial of service, in which attackers take command of third-party
computers, through a virus or other security vulnerability, and instruct
them to send junk data to the target site, overwhelming servers and
causing the site to crash or perform poorly.
Tew said the site now works normally.
Tew, from Wiltshire, a county in southern England, said he informed the
FBI because his site is hosted in the United States.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the agency was investigating.
Such extortion cases
targeting Web sites are occurring with greater
frequency.
(Agencies) |
一名英國(guó)學(xué)生的個(gè)人網(wǎng)站遭到敲詐未果的"黑客"的嚴(yán)重襲擊，創(chuàng)建該網(wǎng)站的就是頗具創(chuàng)業(yè)精神的亞歷克斯·圖，他通過(guò)自己的個(gè)人網(wǎng)站賺取了100萬(wàn)美元。
21歲的亞歷克斯·圖說(shuō)他公布了自己如何通過(guò)網(wǎng)站籌集大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)的故事，隨后他的百萬(wàn)美元網(wǎng)站主頁(yè)就受到了攻擊。
圖在他的網(wǎng)頁(yè)上劃分出1萬(wàn)個(gè)小格子，并以每格100美元的價(jià)格出售廣告空間。他僅用了四個(gè)月的時(shí)間就實(shí)現(xiàn)了自己"一百萬(wàn)美元"的目標(biāo)。而他的創(chuàng)意也引來(lái)數(shù)家網(wǎng)站爭(zhēng)相效仿。
圖說(shuō)，1月7日那天，他收到一個(gè)自稱為"黑色組織"發(fā)來(lái)的威脅郵件，要挾他在72小時(shí)內(nèi)給交出5萬(wàn)美元，否則他的網(wǎng)站就保不住了。
圖說(shuō)，"郵件是用英文寫的，但英語(yǔ)很差。不過(guò)黑客明確提出要5萬(wàn)美元，還說(shuō)這只是我賺到的5%。我沒(méi)有回郵件，也不打算拿出這筆錢。"
圖對(duì)"黑色組織"的威脅并沒(méi)有太在意。隨即，黑客們就采取了所謂"分布式拒絕服務(wù)"的攻擊，該攻擊利用病毒或其它安全缺陷控制傀儡機(jī)，并指引傀儡機(jī)向攻擊目標(biāo)發(fā)送垃圾數(shù)據(jù)包，以擊垮服務(wù)器，導(dǎo)致網(wǎng)站癱瘓或運(yùn)行不暢。
圖說(shuō)，網(wǎng)站現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)恢復(fù)正常了。
來(lái)自英國(guó)南部威爾特郡的圖說(shuō)，他向美國(guó)聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局報(bào)了案，因?yàn)樗W(wǎng)站的主機(jī)設(shè)在美國(guó)。
美國(guó)聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局發(fā)言人保爾·布里森說(shuō)，聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局正在調(diào)查這起事件。
這種敲詐勒索網(wǎng)站的案發(fā)率越來(lái)越高。
(中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)站編譯)
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Updated: 2006-01-23 09:27
