[Woet]

The DDoSer, virus writer and extortionist known as 'n3ptun0' has been arrested by the Police and is currently in jail awaiting trial.
He is responsible for DDoSing popular SA-MP servers such as GamerX and the Partyserver, demanding money from them in return for him to stop sending attacks.
Additionally, he also attacked the SA-MP website, SA-MP forums, serverFFS website and the SA-MP IRC network from time to time.

elhacker.net and several other parties have been active in tracing him down and collecting evidence, finally leading to this arrest.

Quote from Spanish Interior Civil Guard:

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The Civil Guard attributed to a minor computer attack more than 75,000 computers The youngest, a computerized self-taught, he managed to evade security protocols considered insurmountable After controlling more than 75,000 computers spread around the Internet world, launched a massive attack over twelve million hits, a prestigious site for computer security The Civil Guard, as part of Operation CANDELARIA, "developed in Catalonia, have been attributed to a minor residing in Tenerife, as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of damage to computer systems, having" infected "thousands of computers located in different countries, with the aim of dominating and launching massive attacks on certain websites, including personal challenge to demonstrate the vulnerability of those other websites. The investigations were initiated following a complaint by the Administrator of the website www.elhacker.net in which he stated that his page had been canceled for several days following a massive increase of visitors, well above normal, and certainly caused by this intention, which is known as DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). The contents of this page, and the vast majority of people who work in it, programmers and system administrators are intended to help develop their knowledge and experience on network security in several areas, both private business. From the investigations made, it appeared that a person using the network in the nick "n3ptun0" had developed a "virus" taking advantage of security flaws in the UDP protocol (one of the channels of information in the network), for infect PCs Thus, real mastery of Internet hosts and initiate, when he decided, mass visits to selected pages. Furthermore Site Administrator which filed the complaint, the Civil Guard was able to observe the attacks being carried out by the same procedure to other pages, mainly devoted to forums and game servers, called San Andreas .. Infection of computers (Zombies): The child hung a video on youtube with attractive phrases to capture the attention of the Internet, so getting the user and automatically download content was infected. This virus had spread to the peculiarity through programs like Messenger so widespread, Fotolog, etc.. Once infected with the virus, the minor went to dominate the PC at will with the intention to make visits at the same time, the pages I wanted to attack, crashing the servers of the same. One example was the www.elhacker.net page, which suffered in minutes over twelve million hits simultaneously, when the regular average hovered about a hundred thousand. Through this operation had succeeded in controlling more than 75,000 computers The alleged perpetrator of these attacks, a child under 16 years who lacked any academic training in this specialty has been developing their knowledge through 13 years, entirely self-taught individual and .. The child was transferred to the Juvenile Prosecutor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. For more information, please contact the Office Peripheral Communication (OPC) of the Civil Guard in Barcelona, telephone 93 476 60 81 and 93 476 60 91.

Official news:
http://www.guardiacivil.org/prensa/n...idnoticia=2724

Translated to English:
http://translate.******.com/translat...24&sl=es&tl=en

More news:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/1...259238023.html
http://www.europapress.es/islas-cana...126162644.html
http://www.publico.es/agencias/efe/2...do/ordenadores
http://www.abc.es/20091126/nacional-...911261636.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/socie...pepusoc_10/Tes
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5752...o/ordenadores/
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.a...seccio_PK=1012

[Danny_Costelo]

Nice going, he deserves everything he gets. Good job SA:MP team

err.. Good job elhacker.net..

[Correlli]

He is? Finally!

[Guedes747]

The system works. GJ to our spanish neighbors.

[niCe]

I guess great news.

[Karlip]

Love GamerX and the others who helped elhacker.net!

[Danny_Costelo]

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Originally Posted by Karlip Love GamerX and the others who helped GamerX!

SA-MP or GamerX, or anyone associated with SA:MP didn't actually lead to the arrest. The staff of elhacker.net actually did, Woet removed that little snippet on his post..

[SloProKiller]

YES FINALLY! Fcking bitch deserved it.

[Matite]

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Originally Posted by Kylla Quote: Originally Posted by Karlip Love GamerX and the others who helped GamerX! SA-MP or GamerX, or anyone associated with SA:MP didn't actually lead to the arrest. The staff of elhacker.net actually did, Woet removed that little snippet on his post..

I want to make it crystal clear that GamerX only assisted the staff of elhacker.net in providing proof of N3ptun0s attacks on our servers.

The person who we co-operated with has asked me to not release his name. I respect his request.

[Dak_Cobain]

GREAT! I remember this twat- he tried to do the same to Crash n Burn.