Collaborate Disseminate
It’s not clear whether the seizure has anything to do with the IT Army’s activities.
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U.S. authorities took down a related site in 2020.
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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
Underground marketplace pricing on RDP server access, compromised payment card data and DDoS-For-Hire services are surging. Continue reading Dark Web Pricing Skyrockets for Microsoft RDP Servers, Payment-Card Data
A 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 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of minors. Continue reading Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens discuss the latest news relating to network and application threats, focusing on the DDoS-for-Hire threat landscape.
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The 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 other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In addition, a defendant in the United States was sentenced to drug treatment and 18 months community confinement for his admitted role in the conspiracy. Continue reading New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
Akamai this week revealed it mitigated a massive 1.44 terabits-per-second (TBPS) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that for nearly two hours reached levels of 385 million packets per second (MPPS). Roger Barranco, vice president of global se… Continue reading Akamai Discloses Details of Massive DDoS Attack
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