After receiving an anonymous message claiming that Apple fans are behind a DDoS attack that has forced Mobile-Review to temporarily shut down their service, Mobile-Review offers $10.000 USD to any individual or group of individuals who can provide documented information on the mastermind of the attack.
Served from a Russian internet web host, Mobile-Review has grown into a large mobile phone community, where insiders in the Russian mobile industry leak classified information and pre-production units of GSM handsets to the Mobile-Review team. As these GSM handsets are typically the same ones that are launched in the rest of the world, needless to say, any mobile manufacturer would have shut down this web site if they had the opportunity.
Ironically, the one handset that Mobile-Review probably didn't dissect before its launch - Apple's iPhone - is now claimed to be the reason why the site is not currently available. In a statement, Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review suspects that his negative press about Apple's iPhone, has led to a DDoS attack involving several tens of thousands of compromised computers across the globe.
Pretty much every website on the Internet is once in a while experiencing mild DDoS attacks from script kiddies, but the extent of the attack at Mobile-Review, tells us that the site's Russian origin is more likely to be the reason for the attack, rather than negative press about Apple's iPhone.
Only time will tell what happens to Mobile-Review in the future, but most likely the TBGR-like service will re-appear soon.
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