–CastleCops Besieged by Reputation Attack
(September 18 & 20, 2007)
CastleCops, a group of volunteers dedicated to fighting cybercrime, has become the victim of a reputation attack. The group's website suffered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks through most of this year, but attackers have recently begun making donations to the group through
PayPal with stolen account information. To the people whose accounts are compromised, it appears that CastleCops has stolen their money.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/the_danger_of_reputation_attac.html?nav=rss_blog http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39289509,00.htm
[Editor's Note (Liston): Obviously, CastleCops must be doing something right to have gotten the vermin all riled up...]
(((Who has got so many stolen PayPal accounts that they can throw them away merely to annoy white-hat hackers? Also, this "reputation attack" should make a swell political weapon for screwing with online fundraising.)))
