[iwar] [fc:Vigilante.hackers.blasted.off.net]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-10-22 21:53:58

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Vigilante hackers blasted off net 
By James Middleton, vnunet.com, 10/22/2001
<a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1126327">http://www.vnunet.com/News/1126327>

Convicted hacker and recent founder of the YIHAT hacking group, Kim
"Kimble" Schmitz, has been forced to close down the anti-terrorism
group's website after it was hit by denial of service (DoS) attacks. 
The YIHAT website, Kill.net, along with other sites associated with
Schmitz, including his personal site Kimble.org and that of his security
company, Dataprotect.com, have been inaccessible for days.  The
entrepreneurial hacker had drawn a lot of fire as well as respect from
the hacker underground with his plans to stamp out terrorism by training
up a small cyber army.  But it appears that some members of the
underground community more opposed to Schmitz's plan took the matter
into their own hands and blasted his websites off the net.  Earlier this
month, hacker Fluffi Bunni broke into and defaced Kill.net and
Kimble.org, and another hacker went on a defacement spree under the
YIHAT banner and damaged the group's already fragile reputation.  Rumour
has it that over the last week another rival hacking group,
Pakistan-based GForce, threatened to DoS the YIHAT site after it emerged
that YIHAT was monitoring the group as part of its investigation into
terrorist activity.  An email sent to vnunet by Schmitz, headed "YIHAT
Terminates All Public Activities", claims that the group has
"successfully completed the first phase of its mission." The group
claims to have gathered a sufficient amount of information to launch the
second phase of the YIHAT operation, which is to monitor, infiltrate and
take control of the information infrastructure used by or supporting
terrorists.  Schmitz also said that the YIHAT site was taken down "to
prevent the dissemination of confidential information to those who are
not part of the core YIHAT team, and to take away motivation from those
who - for good reason! - did not become part of the core YIHAT team from
continuing to play around." "The decision to take Kill.net offline
completely is also based on the fact that the additional administrative
effort [mainly caused by DoS attacks] has led to an inacceptable
situation.  YIHAT moves to the underground," he said. 

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