Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters. Continue reading Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers

Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers. Continue reading Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers