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17 Sep, 2021

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

Cybersecurity ampnode, booter, DDoS-for-Hire, downthem, Juan Martinez, Matthew Gatrel, Ne'er-Do-Well News

A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to running the services. …

1 Dec, 2020

Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

Cybersecurity Apophis Squad, DDoS-for-Hire, HDGZero, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nicola Hanna, Otis D. Wright II, Protonmail, Timothy Dalton Vaughn, WantedByFeds, Xavier Farbel

25 Jun, 2020

New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

Cybersecurity Aaron Sterritt, Adam Alexander, Chickenmelon, DDoS-for-Hire, Dingle, Drake, DYN DDoS, fbi, Fbot, IoT botnets, Judge Timothy Burgess, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Masuta, mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Okiru, Operation Midmonth, Satori, TalkTalk hack, U.S. Justice Department, Vamp, Viktor, William Walton

The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In addition, a defendant in the United States was sentenced to drug treatment and 18 months community confinement for his admitted role in the conspiracy. …

7 Jun, 2020

Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

Cybersecurity Boaz Dolev, booter, ClearSky Cyber Security, David Bukoski, DDoS-for-Hire, itay huri, Jesse Wu, mirai, Namecentral, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Quantum Stresser, Sergiy Usatyuk, stresser, Titanium Stresser, vDos, yarden bidani, Zachary Buchta

29 May, 2020

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, booter, Cambridge University, Cybercrime Centre, DDoS-for-Hire, Gameover ZeuS, How to Break Into Security, Marcus Hutchins, Richard Clayton, stresser, wired, ZeuS Trojan

When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity needed to support these enterprises is in fact mind-numbingly boring and tedious, and that highlighting this reality may be a far more effective way combat cybercrime and steer offenders toward a better path. …

28 May, 2020

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

Cybersecurity booter, Cybersecurity Challenge, David Cox, DDoS-for-Hire, ddos-for-hire services, Google, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Pathways to Cyber Crime, Richard Clayton, stresser, University of Cambridge Cybercrime Center

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say measurably dampened demand for such services by explaining that their use to harm others is illegal and can land potential customers in jail. …

4 Feb, 2020

Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

Cybersecurity Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Alexander, David Bukoski, DDoS-for-Hire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Quantum Stresser

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. …