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Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

February 4, 2020 0 Comments assistant u.s. attorney adam alexander, david bukoski, DDoS-for-hire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, quantum stresser

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:05:08 +0000

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service.

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Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play

January 22, 2020 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, booter sites, booters, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, Gaming, Law & order, lawsuit, online gaming, penetration testing, r6s, rainbow six siege, security threats, ubisoft

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:39:14 +0000

The network of sites and services run by the alleged operators target the Rainbow Six Siege game, selling attacks to cheating players.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RCiMuJPJaio” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

January 20, 2020 0 Comments backconnect security llc, DDoS-for-hire, free software foundation, mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, richard stallman, tucker preston, u.s. justice department, vdos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:13:03 +0000

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others.

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DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time

November 20, 2019 0 Comments andrew quez, brian martinez, DDoS-for-hire, Hackforums, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rasbora, sergiy p. usatyuk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:05:15 +0000

A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual’s sentencing comes more than five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the defendant and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities.

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Booter boss behind millions of DDoS-for-hire attacks jailed

November 19, 2019 0 Comments booter sites, booters, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, exostress.in, Law & order, security threats, sergiy usatyuk, webstresser

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:52:31 +0000

The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UtMF4LwHAXg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

September 5, 2019 0 Comments author, booters, Botnet, Brian Krebs, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, Drake, Fbot, Gigabit Passive Optical Network, GoAhead, GPON, guilty, High Silicon DVRs, Huawei, IoT, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Law & order, Masuta, mirai, Nexus Zeta, Nuclear Fallout, Okiru, ProxyPipe, Qbot, Remaiten, Routers, Satori, security threats, SWATting, Telemax, telnet, tsunami, Vamp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:44:37 +0000

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GTqVr4bD8sE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>