Russian Man Arrested for Attacks on Amazon.com

Officials at the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus in connection with attacks on Amazon.com. The man, Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested July 18 on an international warrant. Zubakha was indicted in May of 2011 for launching two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the Amazon Web site. The indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, also links him to other DoS attacks on Priceline.com and eBay.

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