Russian bloggers expose Gravikol 21 pharmaceutical scam targeting pensioners

[Dion]

Last week, thousands of Russian bloggers used a retro Denial of Service attack to expose and destroy a pharmaceutical scam targeting pensioners to spend around half of their annual pension on a course of Gravikol 21 - an ‘anti-arthritis’ drug that is little more than a vitamin pill.

They made 21 million telephone calls to one company, forcing it to crash.

There is power in numbers.

http://www.siberianlight.net/2007/11...ng-pensioners/

[Option84]

Sweet. Now if people in Nigeria could do this to all the "Nigerian Princes" who want to "give us part of their inheritance".

[Locke]

These people need to get jobs.

They appear to have an aggregious abundance of free time.

Solid work though. Its about time someone fought back against the evil spam world.

[arsenal]

all it takes one guy with a bot army to actually set off the DoS attack.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by arsenal

all it takes one guy with a bot army to actually set off the DoS attack.

It wasn't a DOD attack. It was an old-fashioned dial-in phone attack. They stuck the number onto random things, even fake call-girl ads to get random people calling.