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Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
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
Dark Web Pricing Skyrockets for Microsoft RDP Servers, Payment-Card Data
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
Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
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
Radware Threat Researchers Live: DDoS-For-Hire
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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New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
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 Discloses Details of Massive DDoS Attack
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
Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service
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
Crime agency turns to Google ads to deter teen DDoS hackers
The UK’s National Crime Agency has hit on a simple way to stop teens from being sucked into cybercrime – using Google Ads. Continue reading Crime agency turns to Google ads to deter teen DDoS hackers
Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring
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