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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:11:43 +0000

Authorities in the United States this week brought criminal hacking charges against three men as part of an unprecedented, international takedown targeting 15 different “booter” or “stresser” sites — attack-for-hire services that helped paying customers launch tens of thousands of digital sieges capable of knocking Web sites and entire network providers offline.

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Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years

December 7, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Apophis Squad, ddos-for-hire, George Duke-Cohan, Ne'er-Do-Well News, protonmail

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:38:49 +0000

The alleged ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched debilitating denial-of-service attacks against Web sites (including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions) has been sentenced to three years in a U.K. prison, and faces the possibility of additional charges from U.S.-based law enforcement officials.

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Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks

October 29, 2018 admin ddos-for-hire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paras Jha, Robert Stahl, Rutgers University

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:36:21 +0000

The convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University, his former alma mater.

Independent Krebs

Alleged ‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Sought Media Spotlight, Got Indicted

September 2, 2018 admin 9gigs_proxypipe, Bad Packets LLC, Daily Beast, ddos-for-hire, Kenneth Schuchman, kenny.windwmx79@outlook.com, Kevin Poulsen, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nexus Zeta, nexuszeta1337@gmail.com, ogmemes123@jabber.ru, Paras Jha, ProxyPipe, Robert Coelho, Satori botnet author, stresser, Troy Mursch, zetastress

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:31:35 +0000

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “Satori” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. This outcome is hardly surprising given that the accused’s alleged alter ego has been relentless in seeking media attention for this global crime machine.

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Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

May 7, 2018 admin Akamai, ddos, ddos-for-hire, google, IdioT, Internet of Things, IoT, Kim Fong, Kurt Hepler, Mirai, NETSCOUT Arbor, Peter Rowland, Project Shield, Rohit Raghavan, UC Berkeley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 16:47:20 +0000

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A new study that tries to measure the direct cost of that one attack for IoT device users whose machines were swept up in the assault found that it may have cost device owners a total of $323,973.75 in excess power and added bandwidth consumption. My bad.

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DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

April 25, 2018 admin 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

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:41:37 +0000

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 more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years.

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Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members

April 16, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, botnet helpdesk, cambridge analytica, carding, ddos, ddos-for-hire, Facebook, spamming, tax refund fraud

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:38:32 +0000

Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years.

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Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion

March 2, 2018 admin 0Kee Team, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, ddos, ddos-for-hire, imperva, Matt Ploesell, memcached attack, Ofer Gayer, Qrator, The Coming Storm, UDP

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:41:55 +0000

Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which victims are asked to pay a ransom to call off crippling cyberattacks.