A Vietnamese sophomore was arrested at the beginning of this week on charges of carrying out a Distribute Denial of Service attack. Although his name remains undisclosed to this date, Vietnamese cyber police have disclosed that the student worked as an administrator on various music forums and that in the process he took over the forum's members machines creating a veritable botnet.

After being identified and arrested the culprit defined the motivation behind his several DdoS attacks saying that he did it "just for fun". Through the zombie network he controlled the student unleashed various distributed denial of service attacks, the most prominent being against the web sites hosted at the Internet servers of Nhan Hoa Software Company.

"Those who accessed these forums unintentionally downloaded hidden malicious codes which would get information about the victims' web sites from other places and become the hacker's tool," said the network security expert Nguyen Tu Quang.

Vu Duc Trung, Nhan Hoa's director, commented on the issue revealing that the student had caused severe damages, considering that just one of the servers he had disabled was used to run over 500 Web sites.