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DDoS for-hire

FBI Charges 6, Seizes 48 Domains Linked to DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on behalf of other threat actors, effectively lowering the barrier to entry for malicious activity. It also charged six suspects – Jeremiah Sam Evans Miller (23), Angel Manuel Colon Jr. (37), Shamar […]

Hacker pleads guilty to operating for-hire DDoS sites

Police agencies found the hacker after he used the IP of his address to access his platforms According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, a U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty to administering eight different online platforms that provided stresser services to deploy Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks […]

FBI Seized 15 DDOS For Hire Websites, 3 Operators Were Charged

Earlier, the US Department of Justice announced today that the FBI had confiscated the domains of 15 DDoS For Hire websites for compensation and accused three people of using some of these services. Subscription DDoS or “Booter” or “Stresser” services provide rental access to the network of infected devices, which can then be used by […]