Collaborate Disseminate
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
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
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
A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to “Titanium Stresser,” a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and individual Internet users.
Adam Mudd of Herfordshire, U.K. admitted to three counts of computer misuse connected with his creating and operating the attack service, also known as a “stresser” or “booter” tool. Services like Titanium Stresser coordinate so-called “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attacks that hurl huge barrages of junk data at a site in a bid to make it crash or become otherwise unreachable to legitimate visitors. Continue reading UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service
Adam Mudd created the tool when he was only 15 and went on to make $385,000 from its sale and a DDoS-for-hire service. Continue reading Teen pleads guilty to creating DDoS tool used in 1.7 million attacks
Another DDoS service down after the owner got busted, this time a UK teenager who created the service called Titanium Stresser when he was just 15. Not long ago we wrote about the two Israeli guys who got busted for running the VDoS-s.com DDoS Service. There seems to be a bit of a crack down […]
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Due to the worldwide promotion of Mirai botnet that knocked down half of the Internet last Friday, hackers and even script kiddies have started creating their own botnet networks by hacking millions of IoT devices and selling them as DDoS-for-hire serv… Continue reading 19-Year-Old Teenage Hacker Behind DDoS-for-Hire Service Pleads Guilty