FBI adds DoS attacker to most wanted list

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FBI adds DoS attacker to most wanted list
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Written by Dan Ilet

The FBI has added a new kind of criminal to its most wanted list - a man on the run accused of hiring hackers to damage the businesses of his competitors.

According to the FBI website, Saad <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... e&#33;.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(jay)\' /> Echouafni, who is listed with the likes of armed robbers, bombers and drug dealers, is said to have caused damage ranging from &#036;200,000 to more than &#036;1m.

The authorities currently believe he could have fled to Morocco, his home country.

Thirty-five year old Echouafni, who was the head of a satellite reseller company called Orbit Communications, is wanted on computer intrusion charges for allegedly hiring hackers to launch attacks against the company's competitors.

A Los Angeles court indicted Echouafni in August this year after a police investigation called Operation Cyberslam. The court heard a digital recorder salesman complain that his website had been hit by distributed-denial-of-service attacks for two weeks.

Security company F-Secure archived a copy of the now redundant Orbit Communications Web site, which displayed a message from Echouafni that read: "Even as you read this message, breakthroughs are being made every day that will make life easier for us all."

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