Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

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 ...
German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’

German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. Fly Hosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, ...
UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

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 ...
Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.

Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire services attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have ...
Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed ...
“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

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

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

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

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 ...
Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...
Radware Threat Researchers Live - ep.4 - The DDoS-for-Hire Threat Landscape

Radware Threat Researchers Live: DDoS-For-Hire

Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens discuss the latest news relating to network and application threats, focusing on the DDoS-for-Hire threat landscape. The post Radware Threat Researchers Live: DDoS-For-Hire appeared first on Radware ...
New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of ...