Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services
Summary: The FBI this week seized 13 domain names tied to booter services that let paying customers launch DDoS attacks, and ten of those domains were reincarnations of services the FBI seized in December 2022. Prosecutors in Los Angeles said four of the six men charged last year have pleaded guilty, while John M. Dobbs, 32, of Honolulu, has pleaded not guilty and is signaling he intends to go to trial over his operation of IPStresser[.]com, which prosecutors say drew more than two million registered users and launched 30 million distinct DDoS attacks.
What you should know: The seized services were used to attack school districts, universities, financial institutions and government websites, and the operators' terms of use did not require users to prove they owned the addresses being stress-tested - the same gap that separates a booter from a legitimate testing service.
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