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Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

February 4, 2020 admin 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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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

January 20, 2020 admin 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 admin 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 Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

February 28, 2019 admin Andrew Quez, betabooter, Brian Martinez, databooter, ddos-for-hire, exostress, instabooter, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OkServers LLC, polystress, quezstresser, Rasbora, Sergiy Usatyuk, zstress

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:14:05 +0000

A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted felon and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities.

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

February 1, 2019 admin booter, ddos-for-hire, Europol, Hack Right, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Operation Power Off, stresser, Titanium Stresser, Webstresser

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:43:59 +0000

More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. In April 2018, investigators in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands took down attack-for-hire service WebStresser[.]org and arrested its alleged administrators. Prior to the takedown, the service had more than 151,000 registered users and was responsible for launching some four million attacks over three years. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks.

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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

January 14, 2019 admin bbc, Cellcom, Daniel Kaye, ddos, ddos-for-hire, GovRAT, Haaretz, Lonestar, Martin Gottesfeld, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:37:32 +0000

Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016.

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Feds Charge Three in Mass Seizure of Attack-for-hire Services

December 20, 2018 admin ddos-for-hire

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.