Conversations with a Bulletproof Hoster
Summary: A bulletproof hosting broker known as "Off-sho.re" joined the Darkode crime forum and took over its defense and hosting, while serving as a moderator of the Stophaus group that attacked Spamhaus.org in late March with a DNS amplification attack that experts called one of the largest ever seen on the Internet. Off-sho.re called the Spamhaus assault "our prank," said DNS amplification attacks can bring up to 140 Gbps to a single resource from a single controller, and before speaking with Krebs ordered a new Darkode applicant to knock krebsonsecurity.com offline as a vetting test.
Why it matters: The same operator who defended one crime forum and helped coordinate the Spamhaus attack used a DDoS against a journalist's site as an admission test for a new member, and told Krebs the assault was "nothing personal" - a reminder that the hosting layer behind criminal infrastructure is run by people who treat third-party servers as disposable capacity.
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