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Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

May 9, 2023 0 Comments angel manuel colon jr., booters, cambridge university cybercrime center, cory anthony palmer, DDoS-for-hire, FBI, jeremiah sam evans miller, john m. dobbs, matthew gatrel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, richard clayton, shamar shattock, stressers, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:05:44 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters.

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Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play

January 22, 2020 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, booter sites, booters, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, Gaming, Law & order, lawsuit, online gaming, penetration testing, r6s, rainbow six siege, security threats, ubisoft

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:39:14 +0000

The network of sites and services run by the alleged operators target the Rainbow Six Siege game, selling attacks to cheating players.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RCiMuJPJaio” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Booter boss behind millions of DDoS-for-hire attacks jailed

November 19, 2019 0 Comments booter sites, booters, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, exostress.in, Law & order, security threats, sergiy usatyuk, webstresser

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:52:31 +0000

The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UtMF4LwHAXg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

September 5, 2019 0 Comments author, booters, Botnet, Brian Krebs, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, Drake, Fbot, Gigabit Passive Optical Network, GoAhead, GPON, guilty, High Silicon DVRs, Huawei, IoT, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Law & order, Masuta, mirai, Nexus Zeta, Nuclear Fallout, Okiru, ProxyPipe, Qbot, Remaiten, Routers, Satori, security threats, SWATting, Telemax, telnet, tsunami, Vamp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:44:37 +0000

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GTqVr4bD8sE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>