The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in…
The Justice Department has also charged six suspects for running the websites, which allowed customers to generate DDoS attacks to knock websites and users offline.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets…