Collaborate Disseminate
Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years. Continue reading DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled
Webstresser[.]org, a DDoS-for-hire market believed to be behind at least 4 million cyberattacks around the world, has served up its last internet-paralyzing traffic tsunami. Continue reading Europol Smacks Down World’s Largest DDoS-for-Hire Market
International law enforcement agencies have forced offline a website believed to be the world’s biggest marketplace for hiring distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Webstresser.org offered anyone the ability to purchase a DDoS attack, cap… Continue reading Website down! DDoS-for-hire site Webstresser shut by crime agencies
In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators.
An operation led by the UK’s Nat… Continue reading Police Shut Down World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire’ Service–Admins Arrested
Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years. Continue reading Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members
Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which victims are asked to pay a ransom to call off crippling cyberattacks. Continue reading Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion
He had a “substantial” role in targeting Netflix, Amazon, Verizon, BBC and other big brand sites in extraordinary DDoS attacks Continue reading Teen sentenced for vDOS rampage
Three men have pleaded guilty for their role in creating, operating and selling access to the “Mirai botnet,” a massive army of compromised internet-connected devices used last year to launch numerous distributed denial of service attacks against hosting companies, social media platforms and other online businesses. The defendants, Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman, were each responsible for supporting an elaborate scheme that began with the creation of a scanning tool to find vulnerable devices connected to the internet, infect them with malware and then mobilize them into a cohesive botnet army capable of pushing excessive internet traffic onto a target in order to knock them offline. They guilty pleas were entered in a federal district court in Alaska, the Department of Justice said. Distributed denial of service attacks typically function through a centralized platform or operator who controls infected computers which can be used to flood digital properties with […]
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KrebsOnSecurity recently featured a story about a New Mexico man who stands accused of using the now-defunct vDOS attack-for-hire service to hobble the Web sites of several former employers. That piece stated that I wasn’t aware of any other prosecutions related to vDOS customers, but as it happens there was a prosecution in the United Kingdom earlier this year of a man who’s admitted to both using and helping to administer vDOS. Here’s a look at some open-source clues that may have led to the U.K. man’s arrest. Continue reading Correcting the Record on vDOS Prosecutions
Using a paid service meant he couldn’t be traced but the FBI tracked him down Continue reading Hackers hired for year-long DDoS attack against former employer