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Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

| | booter, booter services, booters and stressers, crime, ddos, National Crime Agency, National Cyber Crime Unit, NCA, Operation Power Off, Operation PowerOFF, SB Blogwatch, U.K. National Crime Agency, uk
UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies ...
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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

| | A Little Sunshine, booter, DDoS-for-hire, National Crime Agency, Operation Power Off, stresser, U.S. Department of Justice, Web Fraud 2.0
The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally ...
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Operation PowerOFF: DDoS Sites Denied Service (by US, UK, Europol)

Operation PowerOFF: DDoS Sites Denied Service (by US, UK, Europol)

| | booter, booter services, booters and stressers, ddos, ddos services, Operation Power Off, Operation PowerOFF, SB Blogwatch, stresser, stresser services
Around 50 so-called “booter” DDoS sites have been nuked by international law enforcement. And seven of their alleged administrators have been charged ...
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“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

| | ampnode, booter, DDoS-for-hire, downthem, Juan "Severon" Martinez, Matthew Gatrel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, stresser
A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against ...
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Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

| | ampnode, booter, DDoS-for-hire, downthem, Juan Martinez, Matthew Gatrel, Ne'er-Do-Well News
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers ...
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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

| | Boaz Dolev, booter, ClearSky Cyber Security, David Bukoski, DDoS-for-hire, itay huri, Jesse Wu, Mirai, Namecentral, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Quantum Stresser, Sergiy Usatyuk, stresser, Titanium Stresser, vDos, yarden bidani, Zachary Buchta
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 ...
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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

| | A Little Sunshine, booter, Cambridge University, Cybercrime Centre, DDoS-for-hire, Gameover ZeuS, How to Break Into Security, Marcus Hutchins, Richard Clayton, stresser, wired, ZeuS Trojan
When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime ...
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UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

| | booter, Cybersecurity Challenge, David Cox, DDoS-for-hire, ddos-for-hire services, google, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Pathways to Cyber Crime, Richard Clayton, stresser, University of Cambridge Cybercrime Center
The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad ...
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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

| | booter, DDoS-for-hire, Europol, Hack Right, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Operation Power Off, stresser, Titanium Stresser, Webstresser
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 ...
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DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

| | booter, DDoS-for-hire, Europol, FBI, Jovan Mirkovik, m1rk, Mirkovik Babs, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Operation Power Off, stresser, stresserforums, webstresser.co, Webstresser.org
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 ...
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