The World Has No Room For Cowards
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity was hit by a denial-of-service attack on a Thursday afternoon while Fairfax County Police, responding to a spoofed 911 call claiming Russians had broken into his home and shot his wife, surrounded his house with firearms drawn and handcuffed him before releasing him. Logs from the attack-for-hire service booter.tw showed a customer using the nickname "countonme" and the email "countonme@gmail.com" paid for the DDoS against his site, and the same account also paid for an attack on Ars Technica, which was briefly knocked offline.
Key Takeaway: A fake 911 call drew a half-dozen armed squad cars to a journalist's front door over a story about a site selling Social Security numbers and credit reports - the same account that bought the DDoS also bought one against a second outlet that covered it, so the response to reporting was armed force at a home address.
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