He surrendered the botnet when authorities searched his parents house in 2004, he said. While the zombie network originally contained about 30,000 nodes, he only managed to take control of somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 of them, he said. King acknowledged to The Reg that several years ago he maintained a botnet, which he says he stole after discovering the command and control center used by a bot herder. SO ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS FUCK YOU HAVE A NICE DAY." Herd Mentality "Can u ban me from posting? NOPE and do u know why? BECAUSE IT IS DYNAMIC, anytime i get off the internet it changes. "My ip does happen to be logged, And u wont do shit," the May, 2005 post reads. This thread from the Fairfield High School AP Calculus Homepage, for example, contains a comment that repeats itself 13 times. The web is also rife with posts, some of them abusive, from an individual who goes by the handle gregk707.
Someone using the alias SilenZ who chatted via MSN messenger with a KillaNet administrator later admitted to using McDonald's for an internet connection, then began discussing the FBI raid on his parents' house.
According to evidence Quiring provided authorities, six of the attacks on KillaNet were carried out by someone accessing the library computers. Greg said he was responsible for prior attacks on the myg0t website and then announced he would initiate new attacks on myg0t's IRC board as well.Įventually, Greg said he would suspend the DDoS assault if officials posted an apology for "myg0t being the asses we are." Greg listed his email address as Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, BotnetĪfter authorities seized King's computers in December 2004, he began using computers at the Solano County Library and a Best Buy store.
SILENZ MAC SERIES
Previous IP addresses for the domain resolved to SBC IP addresses beginning with "71.132," the same initial digits for addresses frequently assigned to King when he was using his parents' DSL service.īeginning in August of 2004, according to court documents, someone using the name Greg began a series of chats via IRC with people responsible for running myg0t, which bills itself as an online gaming authority.
SILENZ MAC PASSWORD
According to CastleCops logs, the SilenZ account was activated by someone who used the email address and the MD5 value for his password matched the encryption string for "1fuckhead." CastleCops located the command and control for the offending botnet to an IP address that resolved to the domain name beanfarmer.be, a site that is registered to a Greg King, according to DNS records.