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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. net prior to our phone call in 2014. But Usatyuk’s involvement in the DDoS-for-hire space very much predates that period. Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com

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DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time

Krebs on Security

A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. Justice Department, in just the first 13 months of the 27-month long conspiracy, Usatyuk’s booter users ordered approximately 3,829,812 DDoS attacks.

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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

Krebs on Security

On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014.

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A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

Security Affairs

Hungarian financial institutions and telecommunications infrastructure were hit by a powerful DDoS attack originating from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam. A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. ” reported the Reuters agency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

Security Affairs

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 ” The report didn’t name the target of the DDoS attack, AWS experts only revealed that the magnitude was obtained with CLDAP reflection attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Security Affairs

Akamai announced to have mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit a European bank. Akamai revealed that a bank in Europe was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked a record 809 million packets per second (PPS). SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

DDoS extortionists are blackmailing Australian banks asking for payments of large sums in Monero cryptocurrency threatening DDoS attacks. Cybercriminals are threatening Australian banks of DDoS attacks if they will not pay large sums in Monero cryptocurrency. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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