CircleID

Many of the facts of this story are distorted when presented by the folks at Blue Security(RIP). To start at the end, it appears they were shutdown by their funding partners. Within 12 hours of the announcement they were scrubbed from two key partner sites.

To start at the beginning, we know that when they came to the Internet community asking what we all thought of their idea, we labeled it vigilantism and advised them against it. They continued upon their course regardless and the end result is no surprise.
The rejection of their method included the Anti Spam Research
Group "ASRG" and many other organizations and prominent leaders
of spam mitigation.

What actually took place during this DDOS is documented here:

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2006/05/the_bluesecurity_fiasco_dont_m.shtml#more

The rest of the story about grandios attacks that they would bear responsibility for are just plan hogwash. The facts that were reported back to many of us were quotes of ICQ conversations and claims of bribery at Tier1 ISP's. As part of the operator community, I can say that we remain skeptical of many of their claims, if not all.

The company mentioned here (or its associate or affiliate or whatever) seems to have been involved in a large email campaign last week promoting "Anti DDOS measures".  If they did it, it was spam; if it was done to them, it was a continuation of malice.

Bottomline though is that many sites were down, and there seems to be some coincidental (or not) timings.

Ram, what happened there is called a "joe job", or an impersonation spam, a method that some folks use to "take revenge" on someone and cause them many problems. The speculation is that Blue Security or Skybox did not send that email.