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Who DDoS-ed Georgia/Bobbear.co.uk and a Multitude of Russian Homosexual Sites in 2009? – An OSINT Analysis

Security Boulevard

NOTE: I took these screenshots circa 2009. Back in 2009 there was a major speculation that Russia indeed launched a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Georgia which was in fact true. The post Who DDoS-ed Georgia/Bobbear.co.uk and a Multitude of Russian Homosexual Sites in 2009? bstatus.php.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

Krebs on Security

On Sunday, 8chan and a host of other sites related to QAnon conspiracy theories were briefly knocked offline after Guilmette called 8chan’s anti-DDoS provider and convinced them to stop protecting the site from crippling online attacks (8Chan is now protected by an anti-DDoS provider in St. Petersburg, Russia).

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Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services

Malwarebytes

Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try a little bit harder today: A major international operation has taken no fewer than 48 of the most popular booter services offline. The FBI has seized this website for operating as a DDoS-for-hire service.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. ” Likewise, the bulletproof domain service icamis[.]ws

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5

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Taiwan Government websites suffered DDoS attacks during the Nancy Pelosi visit

Security Affairs

Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The post Taiwan Government websites suffered DDoS attacks during the Nancy Pelosi visit appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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