Anonymous successfully rendered Ecatel’s servers inaccessible, which will inevitably get them a lot of kudos and respect from the hacker community.
Ecatel: ‘We are abhorred by child pornography but refuse to act like a judge‘ (which can cost a ‘rogue ISP’ a lot of money too, right?)
The provider is arguing that it ‘doesn’t look at notifications regarding child pornography‘ and that they’d rather leave that ‘to the professional people at the Dutch National Police (KLPD)‘. Ecatel also directed a personal message at Anonymous, instructing them to go and DDoS (only) the websites they have a problem with or inform the police or otherwise engage in sexual intercourse with their mother:
The provider says it has ‘reprimanded its frustrated but loyal employee for this statement‘.
Dutch website Security.nl notes that Ecatel was also the one recently hosting servers that were facilitating the notorious Grum-botnet. After a security researcher posted information about that, Ecatel DID decide to take the botnet servers down.
“ECATEL does have a very long history of hosting shady things,” said van Straten
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/04/grum-inside-the-takedown-of-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-spam-networks/
Ecatel is also known to have hosted Ninjavideo:
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/11/ninjavideo-admins-and-uploaders-indicted-by-grand-jury-the-authorities-hold-the-defendants-responsible-for-providing-access-to-unauthorized-movies-and-tv-shows-between-2008-and-2010-which-allegedly/
Ecatel has been labeled ‘rogue’ and ‘cybercrime-friendly’ by HostExploit:
http://vrritti.com/2010/10/07/dutch-hosting-provider-ecatel-most-cybercrime-friendly/
Dutch language news article:
http://www.security.nl/artikel/42528/1/Anonymous_valt_Nederlandse_hoster_aan.html
See also:
http://pastebin.com/RA4rSK30
