January 22, 2020

Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play

The network of sites and services run by the alleged operators target the Rainbow Six Siege game, selling attacks to cheating players.

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November 19, 2019

Booter boss behind millions of DDoS-for-hire attacks jailed

The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services.

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September 11, 2019

Wikipedia fights off huge DDoS attack

Wikipedia has suffered what appears to be the most disruptive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in recent memory.

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September 05, 2019

Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.

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August 16, 2019

Police site DDoSer/bomb hoaxer caught after jeering on social media

He called in hoaxes days after the Manchester Arena bombing, DDoSed police sites when they investigated him, then taunted them on Twitter.

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July 08, 2019

New Year’s eve gaming DDoSer lulz himself into a 27-month sentence

Back in 2014, @DerpTrolling said he attacked sites simply based on requests from people who tweeted suggested targets.

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June 26, 2019

Hacker threw Molotov cocktail, dropped USB drive of his DDoS deeds

Those things drop out of pockets at the worst times. Like, say, when you're hurling a bomb at a brick-and-mortar that you've also DDoSed.

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May 24, 2019

Directed attacks against MySQL servers deliver ransomware

Someone is attacking internet-facing Windows database servers with GandCrab ransomware

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March 21, 2019

FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes

According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.

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