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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

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The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

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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. Daniel Kaye. Photo: National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye , an Israel-U.K. to face charges there.

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Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

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The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 “Our infrastructure absorbed a 2.5

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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

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I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

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A new botnet, tracked as Lucifer, appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages close to a dozen exploits to hack Windows systems. Upon infecting a system the bot turns it into a cryptomining client and could use it to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” reads the report published by the Unit42 team.

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UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

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The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. ’s National Crime Agency , which saw success with a related campaign for six months starting in December 2017.

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Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

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A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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