Spreading the DDoS Disease and Selling the Cure
Summary: Krebs on Security reports that the domain registrar Namecentral.com, run by 19-year-old Jesse Wu, has registered just 38 domains since 2012 and that many of them are DDoS-for-hire or "booter" services, including vDOS resellers such as 83144692.com and vstress.net. The article also links UK corporate records naming a Thomas McGonagall as director of Namecentral Ltd, EZStress Ltd and RebelSecurity Ltd, and ties Wu's email domains to additional booter domains and to a DDoS mitigation firm, Datawagon, run by 19-year-old Christopher J. Sculti Jr.
What's compelling: The registrar's owner says the real money is in selling DDoS protection against the same attack services he registers, and he states Namecentral has never received a court order, a law enforcement contact, or a credible abuse report.
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