US Is Seizing 48 Websites In Sting of Cyberattack-For-Hire Services (bloomberg.com) 13
The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. Bloomberg reports: In all, the US obtained a court order to seize 48 websites, and six people were criminally charged in relation to the takedowns, according to federal prosecutors. The FBI was in the process of seizing the websites, officials said Wednesday. The websites were used to launch, or attempt to launch, millions of so-called DDoS attacks around the world, the DOJ said in a statement. Short for distributed-denial-of- service, DDoS attacks direct huge amounts of junk internet traffic at a website or computer network to knock it offline.
DDoS-for-hire services often refer to themselves as "stresser" or "booter" tools that purport to offer a way for individuals to test the resilience of websites and services they operate, according to cybersecurity experts. In reality, the services are often used for harassment, extortion and criminal mischief, they say. The sites seized by the FBI include royalstresser, securityteam and dragonstresser, among others.
DDoS-for-hire services often refer to themselves as "stresser" or "booter" tools that purport to offer a way for individuals to test the resilience of websites and services they operate, according to cybersecurity experts. In reality, the services are often used for harassment, extortion and criminal mischief, they say. The sites seized by the FBI include royalstresser, securityteam and dragonstresser, among others.
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dunno, wondering. ... could it so be that you don't have mod points exactly for that reason?
Checkmate! (Score:2)
This cyber-take-down should keep these cyber-criminals off of the cyber-internet for almost 3 milliseconds!
Every little bit counts. (All dad's should appreciate that)
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Pretty sure those six individuals charged will be taken down for a bit longer than 3ms. But in general... yeah, it's a whack-a-mole game.
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You're assuming that only the people running the site can be charged. Customers of those websites will likely be investigated as well, and those who can be identified can be charged later
US Is Seizing (Score:2)
>US Is Seizing
Do they use some kind of slo-mo action? An extra slow network link?
https://youtu.be/4aUC1VZQE1E [youtu.be]
Yes, it's called the federal government (Score:2)
> Do they use some kind of slo-mo action?
Yes, a very, very, very slow-motion system.
A system called "the US federal government".
The US government is *supposed* to be fair, transparent, open, democratic - no fast or efficient.
When things go wrong, because the govt is made of humans, then it's not fair, transparent, or open, but it still aint fast. Not supposed to be fast.
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Sure, right up until the first sentence of the summary
>The US seized dozens of internet domains
Stupid headline is stupid.
What?!!??! No Russians involved? (Score:1)
Or other Eastern Europeans? Gotta be fake news....
Re: What?!!??! No Russians involved? (Score:4, Funny)