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posted by martyb on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the shunt-more-power-to-the-deflector-dish dept.

BBC:

The FBI has seized control of 15 websites that let people pay to knock individuals and other sites offline.

The so-called booters sought to swamp targets with huge amounts of data in what are known as distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Three US men have been charged with allegedly offering DDoS services.

"DDoS-for-hire services such as these pose a significant national threat," US Attorney for Alaska Bryan Schroder said in a statement.

The FBI says more than 200,000 attacks have been launched via just one booter site.

Did the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) just paint a giant DDoS target on its back?


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  • (Score: 2) by Revek on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:16AM (4 children)

    by Revek (5022) on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:16AM (#777446)

    They must have tripped over it since these sights have been running rampant for years.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:47AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:47AM (#777453)

    The correct spelling is SITE, not SIGHT.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @10:12AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @10:12AM (#777480)

      GP is unsighted, you insensitive clod. Take it up with his speech to text program.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:06PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:06PM (#777685)

        It was just an OVERSITE.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @09:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @09:29PM (#777905)

    If you haven't noticed, the FBI is busy with High profile Russian witch hunts and educing people to act as terrorists.
    They normally couldn't give a hoot about your chickenshit small tax paying business going down "for the lulz".