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Europol just shut down a site where you could buy DDOS attacks and as a result 150.000 people who had done so were targeted by police[1]. DDOSing has been a sc
by jaabe 8y ago
Europol just shut down a site where you could buy DDOS attacks and as a result 150.000 people who had done so were targeted by police[1].
DDOSing has been a scourge. I work in the public sector of Denmark and we see then from time to time, and, you frankly feel rather helpless. I mean, these days we have ways of dealing with them technically, but I don’t think anyone ever expected the culprits to face any sort of consequences. Yet here we are.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/dansk-politi-med-i-kaempe-politiaktion-150000-personer-bestilte-fire-millioner https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/dansk-politi-med-i-kaempe-...
- rebuilder 8y ago150 000 people bought DDOS services? That boggles the mind.
- r1ch 8y agoThese services are / were very popular in online gaming to knock opponents offline, you only need a few minutes of DDoS time to kill a residential connection. Console games in particular are quite vulnerable as a good amount of them still use peer to peer connections so you can easily find IPs to target. Other techniques such as booby trapped links, P2P voice chat, fake servers etc can find player IPs for PC games.
- alasdair_ 8y agoThe site had 151K registered usernames. This doesn't at all mean that there 151,000 actual people involved - it just sounds better that way in the press release. More information here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/authorities-across-world-going-after-users-of-biggest-ddos-for-hire-website https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/authorities-acro...