Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:09:09 +0000
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 hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites.
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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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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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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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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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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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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=””/>
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