Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
Summary: The U.S. Department of Justice seized 48 domains selling booter and stresser services and charged six U.S. men with computer crimes tied to their alleged ownership of the sites. Prosecutors say the seized services enabled millions of DDoS attacks, including IPStresser.com, which allegedly ran for nearly 13 years, launched about 30 million attacks, and gathered more than two million registered users.
What you should know: The operators claimed their terms of use and digital signatures shielded them from liability, but the FBI affidavit notes none of the sites required confirmation that the FBI owned the computers it attacked during testing. One alleged service, SecurityTeam, drew roughly 50,000 registered users and conducted 1.3 million attacks between 2018 and 2022.
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