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...
Read moreGerman Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’
April 1 2023Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. Fly Hosting first advertised on cybercrime forums...
Read moreUK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market
March 29 2023The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is...
Read moreThinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.
January 18 2023Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire services attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users...
Read moreSix Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
December 15 2022The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to...
Read more“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison
June 14 2022A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service...
Read moreTrial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
September 17 2021A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that...
Read moreBomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
December 1 2020A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching...
Read moreThe U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and...
Read moreThe co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and...
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