14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, a Dutch citizen was arrested in Spain for his alleged involvement in the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against Spamhaus. The suspect is believed to be Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka CB3ROB, the owner of Cyberbunker.
Shortly after the arrest, a “statement” emerged on Pastebin, calling for the release of Kamphuis.
Despite the fact that the authors of the post claim they’re “not Anonymous,” many hackers associated with the hacktivist movement have picked up the campaign dubbed “freecb3rob.”
“We demand you to release Sven or we will indeed start the biggest attack you humans have ever experienced towards The Internet, and yourself. Anything and all connected will suffer and do you silly governments really think you can stop millions of human beings? You have no chance, AT ALL,” the statement reads.
“We have seen and tested how weak the current security in The Netherlands is. Banks, airports, even your precious 'DigiD' was taken out within minutes. You have been warned.”
The initiators of the operation say CB3ROB doesn’t have anything to do with the attack on Spamhaus.
“These ‘governments’ of simple human beings believe Sven has been involved with the latest digital attacks (DDoS) against spamhaus, and such. This is based on false information,” they wrote.
Many of those who support the campaign say Kamphuis is just another Internet freedom activist that has been wrongfully arrested.
In a post published on Dymanoo’s Blog, Conrad Longmore says he has found that 74% of the 866 websites hosted in the IP address range allocated to Cyberbunker and CB3ROB are flagged as spam domains by multi.surbl.org.
In addition, 39% of them are appointed as spam on more than one blacklist. Moreover, Google flags 0.9% of them as hosting malware.
“Given the high level of domains flagged for spam, the obvious conclusion is that CyberBunker has a serious spam problem and a less serious malware problem mostly centered on 84.22.104.244. Perhaps there are some legitimate sites in this list who have been caught up in the crossfire, although nothing seems to stand out,” Longmore noted.
“You can look at the evidence yourself and decide if CB3ROB is a champion of free speech or someone who supports spammers. I know what my conclusion is though.”