• Feds Take Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites
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https://www.pcmag.com/news/365609/feds-take-down-15-ddos-for-hire-websites?hss_channel=tw-59545848
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Hmm quantumstress.net
The FBI is now warning it intends to go after both operators and buyers of such DDoS-for-hire services. Deserved.
Good. I really doubt this alone will slow attacks. But I'm glad the effort is being made.
I was under the impression the sites themselves aren't illegal but then I suppose there's a strong argument to be made they are well aware that they are only used for illegal means and do nothing to stop it. I'm assuming by going after people they are saying they are going after US based customers who messed with the wrong companies, since I can imagine a lot of people buying these are also overseas and I'm not sure how they'd prove some person launching an attack on some random IP address years ago was doing it maliciously and not to themselves or something they own. I wonder how many people they'll be able to track down as well since a lot of these sites only accept bitcoin payments and anyone with sense wouldn't attach anything to do with their real identity to their profile, though I imagine a lot of kids do.
I laughed when I saw the Dutch police logo, dropping 16k cases cause they lack forces, scared of the morrocan mafia, and barely bothering with our massive hard drugs production. But when it comes to this kind of bs, they're fucking totalitarian
Half these sites are in Russia/China anyways. Neither of which gives a half used turd about this kind of thing. Knock one down and 5 more will spring up. You can rent a box with a 10Gb connection from a shady Russian company with bitcoin, and that's plenty to knock anything without decent DOS protection out, or at least severely degrade the service to the point that it may as well be knocked out. There's even auto install scripts that literally build these things for you. That's not even getting into the potential for reflection/amplification attacks.
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