Law enforcement efforts worldwide working on ‘Operation Power Off’ have taken down the webstresser.org website, which police claim sold DDoS attacks, helping up to 136,000 registered users launch up to 4 million attacks worldwide. Four arrests … [Read more...] about World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire Site’ – webstresser.org – is Taken Down
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The Demise of the Election Hacking Kelihos Botnet
Last April, the U.S. Justice Department was finally able to report that a suspect had been arrested in the Kelihos botnet case. Peter Yuryevich Levashov, a Russian citizen who allegedly ran the Kelihos botnet since at least 2010, was arrested in … [Read more...] about The Demise of the Election Hacking Kelihos Botnet
vDoS Booter Service and the Attack against Brian Krebs
Before Mirai came into the public eye, the FBI was working on a case involving two teens running a DDoS-for-hire service called vDOS. Two young Israeli men were using the massive vDOS botnet to offer a booter service, aimed at helping gamers knock … [Read more...] about vDoS Booter Service and the Attack against Brian Krebs
How the FBI took down the Mirai creators
At the end of last year, the FBI filed charges against the creators of Mirai, the largest DDoS attack of its kind when it struck the DNS provider, Dyn in October 2016 and took down the sites for some of the largest companies in the U.S., including … [Read more...] about How the FBI took down the Mirai creators
Homeland Security Draft White Paper 2017
The U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce are working on a White Paper to be presented to the President later this year on enhancing the resilience of the Internet against Botnets and Distributed Attacks. They released a draft last … [Read more...] about Homeland Security Draft White Paper 2017