By Jeremy Kirk October 3, 2008 (IDG News - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted two European men for allegedly orchestrating distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against a pair of U.S.-based Web sites in 2003.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictments yesterday. Two U.S. residents were charged in connection with the same attacks in 2004, in what the DOJ describes as its first successful investigation of large-scale DDOS attacks waged against Web sites for commercial purposes.
st name Saad, was one of the men charged in 2004; he remains at large and may have fled to Morocco, according to the FBI. The second man charged then, Paul Ashley,

By Austin Modine • Get more from this author A British man and a German man have been indicted by a US federal grand jury for launching a campaign of denial

OCTOBER 3, 2008 - A British man and a German man yesterday were indicted by a federal grand jury for launching large-scale distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks that shut down the Websites of two U.S.-based retail satellite services.
Lee Graham Walker, 24, of Bleys Bolton, England, and Axel Gembe, 25, of Germany, are accused of making the attacks under a "contract" with Jay Echouafni, the former owner of satellite provider Orbit Communications Corp., who allegedly hired the two to disable the Websites of his company's competitors.
companies did all of their business, according to the Department of Justice.