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on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:14AM
from the shunt-more-power-to-the-deflector-dish dept.
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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FBI Swoops in on 'National Threat' 'Hacks for Hire' Sites
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:04AM (1 child)
Just hire the people at the site to shut themselves down.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @10:57PM
Would that be recursive ddos?