DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time
A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched
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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Traditionally, those connections
Read more The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Traditionally, those connections
Read more Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing Service
A Connecticut man who’s earned bug bounty rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security
Read more Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing Service
A Connecticut man who’s earned bug bounty rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security
Read more ‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty
A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “LuminosityLink,” a malware strain that
Read more Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, NanoCore
It’s been a busy few weeks in cybercrime news, justifying updates to a couple of cases we’ve been following closely
Read more Correcting the Record on vDOS Prosecutions
KrebsOnSecurity recently featured a story about a New Mexico man who stands accused of using the now-defunct vDOS attack-for-hire service
Read more Who Is Marcus Hutchins?
In early August 2017, FBI agents in Las Vegas arrested 23-year-old British security researcher Marcus Hutchins on suspicion of authoring
Read more Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years
vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than
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