Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned.

The U.S. and 20 other countries teamed up this week to take down dozens of websites behind cyberattack-for-hire services. As ...

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, ...

The U.S. Justice Department Thursday announced court-authorized actions taken to disrupt some of the world’s leading ...

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed it is running several fake DDoS-for-hire websites in a bid to disrupt this thriving part of the cybercrime economy. The agency revealed the news after ...

In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several ...

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and ...

As part of an ongoing initiative targeting computer attack “booter” services, the Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 13 internet domains associated with these ...

Polish police officers of the country's Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained two suspects believed to have been involved in operating a DDoS-for-hire service (aka booter or stresser) ...

Authorities in 21 countries took down 53 domains and arrested 4 people in a coordinated operation against DDoS services.

Polish authorities have detained four suspects linked to six DDoS-for-hire platforms, believed to have facilitated thousands of attacks targeting schools, government services, businesses, and gaming ...