William Turton / Bloomberg:
The US DOJ says it has started seizing 48 websites and charged 6 people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks — The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ seizes internet domains for Z-Library, a repository that went viral on TikTok for offering 11M+ books, including pirated textbooks, and 84M articles — Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service.
Rasbora.dev:
A developer who ran a DDoS-for-hire “empire” criticizes Cloudflare for protecting the DDoS industry while selling services to mitigate such attacks — Today CloudFlare is in the spotlight for their decision to revoke access to a website behind their network …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Financial cybercrime group the Disneyland Team is spoofing bank domains using Punycode, a standard that lets browsers render domains with non-Latin alphabets — A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains …
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
US officials accuse a man of remotely swiping 713 bitcoins from a wallet seized in a case against his brother, who operated crypto mixer Helix to launder money — Gary Harmon grinned as he lounged in a bathtub full of dollar bills surrounded by scantily clad women.
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 is “experiencing a mass DDoS attack” on its servers, preventing hundreds of users from joining the game’s launch — Overwatch 2’s early access launch has been marred by a few bugs and a massive DDoS attack preventing players from getting into the game.
Distributed denial of service attacks against K–12 school districts have risen sharply over the past two years. The attacks come from outside actors and, increasingly,…
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