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According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%. Continue reading FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
The FBI’s crackdown on 15 DDoS-for-hire sites appears to have had an impact on DDoS attacks, the average size for which dropped 85 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018, a new report found. Continue reading ThreatList: DDoS Attack Sizes Drop 85 Percent Post FBI Crackdown
A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted felon and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities. Continue reading Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty
A 20-year-old Illinois man pleaded guilty to charges related to a scheme to launch millions of distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S. school districts and other targets, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Sergiy Usatyuk and a co-conspirator gained more than $550,000 by charging subscribers for access to booter and stresser services, which typically enable attackers, using only a web browser, to launch a DDoS attack capable of knocking target sites offline. Usatyuk was involved with booter and stresser services including ExoStreeser, QuezStresser, BetaBooter Databooter, Instabooter, Polystress and Zstress. The Exostresser services alone facilitated 1,367,610 DDoS attacks which caused victims to suffer 109,186 hours of downtime, the DOJ said Wednesday. In one case in 2017, a Betabooter user launched a number of DDoS attackers against a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, school district that also affected 17 other organization, including the county government, prosecutors said. Usatyuk was active from around August 2015 to November […]
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More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency…. Continue reading 250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action
Cops from 14 countries are seeking to inflict a bit of distributed denial-of-freedom to whoever’s behind 6 million around-the-globe attacks. Continue reading It’s mop-up time for WebStresser DDoS-for-hire users
Meanwhile, authorities are aggressively going after former users of the Webstresser DDoS-for-hire service. Continue reading Feds Dismantle Dark Web Credentials Market
If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble.
After taking down and arresting the operators of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the servic… Continue reading Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services
When police shut down the notorious website webstresser.org last year and arrested its administrators, a clear message was sent to the site’s 151,000 users: you’re next. Until its takedown, webstresser.org was believed to the world’s … Continue reading User of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire website? Police say they’re coming after you
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-y… Continue reading Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS