Want to still run a booter/stresser service? 13 more taken down

In a recent Krebs on Security article, Brian indicates that 13 more domains were aledgedly taken down.

Stresser services aren’t bad by themselves, its how you use them is what’s the problem.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters.

Krebs continues:

Booter services are advertised through a variety of methods, including Dark Web forums, chat platforms and even youtube.com. They accept payment via PayPal, Google Wallet, and/or cryptocurrencies, and subscriptions can range in price from just a few dollars to several hundred per month. The services are generally priced according to the volume of traffic to be hurled at the target, the duration of each attack, and the number of concurrent attacks allowed.

Who might be affected by these types of services? POne paragraph says:

“School districts, universities, financial institutions and government websites are among the victims who have been targeted in attacks launched by booter services,” federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said in a statement.

There’s plenty more to this, and we’ll be covering this on a future TSB podcast in July.

The article is titled Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services so come prepared to discuss this one in July, or any time you want. We’ll just have a full discussion on it then.