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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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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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Europol: Ransomware remains top threat in IOCTA report

October 14, 2019 0 Comments Awareness, BEC, business email compromise, child sexual exploitation, cse, DDoS, europol, fraud, internet organized crime threat assessment, iocta, phishing, Ransomware, spear phishing

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, or Europol, just released its annual Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report. We highlight their key findings and remind readers how to better protect themselves.

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Tags: bec Business Email Compromise child sexual exploitation cse ddos europol fraud internet organized crime threat assessment iocta phishing ransomware spear phishing

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German Cops Raid “Cyberbunker 2.0,” Arrest 7 in Child Porn, Dark Web Market Sting

September 28, 2019 0 Comments cb3rob, cyberbunker, DDoS, disaster-proof solutions, guido blaauw, herman johan xennt, juergen bauer, Ne'er-Do-Well News, sven kamphuis, zyztm research

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 23:25:48 +0000

German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child porn, cybercrime and drug markets with hundreds of servers buried inside a heavily fortified military bunker. Incredibly, for at least two of the men accused in the scheme, this was their second bunker-based hosting business that was raided by cops and shut down for courting and supporting illegal activity online.

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Wikipedia fights off huge DDoS attack

September 11, 2019 0 Comments DDoS, Denial of Service, security threats, takedown, Wikimedia, Wikipedia

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:15:02 +0000

Wikipedia has suffered what appears to be the most disruptive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in recent memory.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/b2MSnz2UW8w” 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=””/>

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Police site DDoSer/bomb hoaxer caught after jeering on social media

August 16, 2019 0 Comments bomb threat, DDoS, Denial of Service, hoax calls, Law & order, Liam Reece Watts, Manchester Arena, mass murder, security threats, SYN flood, Synic, taunting police, terrorism

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:33:04 +0000

He called in hoaxes days after the Manchester Arena bombing, DDoSed police sites when they investigated him, then taunted them on Twitter.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nq0GnuKZhNw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>