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Hackforums Shutters Booter Service Bazaar

Summary: Hackforums administrator Jesse LaBrocca announced on October 28 that the forum permanently banned its "server stress testing" section, where vendors sold and advertised booter and stresser attack-for-hire services. The move followed the Mirai-based DDoS attack on Dyn that caused sporadic outages at Twitter, PayPal, Reddit and Netflix, and a record-sized DDoS on KrebsOnSecurity.com. LaBrocca, posting as "Omniscient," said he was disappointed by the path but needed the forum to continue to exist, and stands to lose vendor fees of up to $25 per sales-thread status, banner ads up to $200 per week, and sticky ads up to $60 per week.

Key Takeaway: Flashpoint's Allison Nixon said the closure could put many booter services out of business by removing the casual discovery path for gamers who use them to settle grudges, but she noted the same forum still openly hosts remote access Trojans, malware crypting services and botnets.

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