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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
On April 10, Dutch police announced that they arrested a 19-year old suspect responsible for shutting down MijnOverheid.nl and Overheid.nl through planned DDos attacks on March 19. A frequently visited government information hub, Overheid.nl, offered C… Continue reading Dutch Police arrest suspect responsible for DDos attacks on government websites
Dutch law enforcement has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services that were used to run cyberattacks aimed at knocking websites and networks offline. Although they did not reveal the names of the DDoS-for-hire booters that they stopped, Police in The Netherlands were able to arrest a 19-year-old man from The Netherlands, who is suspected of orchestrating a DDoS attack against two websites that provide information on the coronavirus. The affected websites, MijnOverheid.nl and Overheid.nl, were unavailable for several hours on March 19 after being bombarded with traffic, according to the Dutch police. “We want to protect people and companies and make it increasingly difficult for cyber criminals to carry out a DDoS attack,” the head of the cyber crime team of the Central Netherlands police, Jeroen Niessen, said in a statement on the takedown. Dutch citizens may have found the interruptions to Overhead.nl particularly exasperating because the site is used as a “digital letterbox” […]
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A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service. Continue reading Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy
The network of sites and services run by the alleged operators target the Rainbow Six Siege game, selling attacks to cheating players. Continue reading Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play
A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Continue reading DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS
A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual’s sentencing comes more than five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the defendant and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities. Continue reading DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time
The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services. Continue reading Booter boss behind millions of DDoS-for-hire attacks jailed
It looks like scammers are impersonating one of Russia’s most notorious hacking groups in order to extort victims out of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin. Multiple companies have reported to the security vendor Akamai that they were hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack, which degrades victims’ web services by overwhelming them with fake traffic. After a brief DDoS hit, victims say they receive an extortion note from a group claiming to be Cozy Bear, a state-sponsored Russian hacking group. The scheme works like this: attackers launch the DDoS attack from a botnet, in which each IP in the botnet sends a fraction of the overall traffic to the target. The victim has a deadline, typically six days, to pay two bitcoin. If they don’t pay by the time the deadline expires, the fee increases by one bitcoin per day, and the DDoS resumes. Cozy Bear is best known for […]
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He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release. Continue reading Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty