Collaborate Disseminate
By Habiba Rashid
Operation PowerOFF is an effort to dismantle DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide, targeting operators engaged in criminal activities.
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The 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 illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. Continue reading UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market
Thinking of trying a bit of DDoSsing to get a feel for life at the fringes of the Dark Side? Don’t do it! Continue reading Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals
By Waqas
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has conducted a sting operation to infiltrate the cybercrime market with fake DDoS sites for Operation Power Off.
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By Waqas
Matthew Gatrel was arrested after an extensive crackdown by the FBI and other agencies against 15 booter service…
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A 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 (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. Continue reading “Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison
A 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 allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to running the services. Continue reading Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
The 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 websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. Continue reading Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service
When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity needed to support these enterprises is in fact mind-numbingly boring and tedious, and that highlighting this reality may be a far more effective way combat cybercrime and steer offenders toward a better path. Continue reading Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring
The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initia… Continue reading UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime