UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market
Summary: The UK's National Crime Agency has set up phony DDoS-for-hire, or booter, sites that collect data on users and warn them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, with several thousand people having accessed them so far. UK-based users are contacted by the NCA or police and warned about engaging in cyber crime, while information on overseas users is passed to international law enforcement, under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Why it matters: The campaign follows Operation Power Off, in which the DOJ seized four-dozen booter domains responsible for more than 30 million DDoS attacks and charged six U.S. men, and the NCA arrested an 18-year-old suspected of running one of the sites - so anyone signing up for a booter now cannot be sure who is actually behind it.
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