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
It felt like Lizard Squad was everywhere for a few months in 2014. The group of teens knew how to get headlines: They picked special days to launch high-profile denial of service attacks against famous targets. The group was responsible for taking down some of the world’s biggest video game networks, including an attack on the PlayStation and XBox Live networks on Christmas Day. Other targets included Taylor Swift’s social media accounts, the Tor network and North Korea. The group tweeted and trolled online throughout their crusade, with one member even giving a live video interview to British media. Then some, including the now 20-year-old Maryland man Zachary Buchta, went on to form a second similar group known as PoodleCorp. That outfit ran DDoS-for-hire services named PoodleStresser. An unknown hacker eventually breached PoodleStresser and arrests followed. Buchta, who was behind the Twitter account @fbiarelosers, pleaded guilty last December to conspiracy to commit damage to protected computers. On Tuesday, he was […]
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For $20/month, one of the services, PhoneBomber, would call a victim once an hour for a month with streams of expletive-sprinkled threats. Continue reading Lizard Squad, PoodleCorp members arrested in DDoS-for-hire bust
The U.S. Justice Department has charged two 19-year-old men alleged to be core members of the hacking groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp. The pair are charged with credit card theft and operating so-called “booter”or “stresser” services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful attacks designed to knock Web sites offline. Continue reading Feds Charge Two In Lizard Squad Investigation