Krebs again.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/06/fina ... s-attacks/This remains the story that keeps on giving.
Quote:
Pavel Vrublevsky, the embattled co-founder of ChronoPay — Russia’s largest online payments processor — has reportedly fled the country after the arrest of a suspect who confessed that he was hired by Vrublevsky to launch a debilitating cyber attack against a top ChronoPay competitor.
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Quote:
In the summer of 2010, rumors began flying in the Russian blogosphere that Vrublevsky had hired a hacker to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Assist, the company that was processing payments for Aeroflot, Russia’s largest airline. Aeroflot had opened its contract for processing payments to competitive bidding, and ChronoPay was competing against Assist and several other processors. The attack on Assist occurred just weeks before Aeroflot was to decide which company would win the contract; it so greatly affected Assist’s operations that the company was unable to process payments for extended periods of time. Citing the downtime in processing as a factor in its decision, Aeroflot ultimately awarded the contract to neither ChronoPay nor Assist, but instead to Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.
Considering how flamboyantly outspoken Vrublevsky usually is, it should be interesting to see what happens in the coming months.
How is this guy still in business? (I guess the answer may be: because he's in Russia.)
SiL
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 11:13 am 
-corn?
