US federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025
Today the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against the operator of Rapper Bot, a massive IoT-based DDoS botnet. … Forums: r/Eugene : Eugene Man Charged with operating one of the largest bo...
Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS, a now defunct DDoS-for-hire service, to six months of community service
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Hacker sentenced to 27 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks on many gaming services from December 2013 to January 2014
Six years later, DerpTrolling, the hacker who started all the Christmas DDoS attacks, gets prison time. — A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week …
British man sentenced to 2+ years in prison for DDoS attack that took down internet connectivity in Liberia in 2016, after an ISP hired him to attack a rival
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Massachusetts man sentenced to over 10 years in prison and ordered to pay ~$443K in restitution for a DDoS attack on Boston Children's Hospital in 2014
Nate Raymond / Reuters :
FBI has seized the domains of 15 high-profile DDoS-for-hire websites, including downtime.org and deacon.pro, and charged 3 men in US with operating the sites
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
FBI has seized the domains of 15 high-profile DDoS-for-hire websites, including downtime.org and deacon.pro, and charged 3 men in US with operating the sites
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Unsealed court documents show three men have plead guilty to creating the 2016 Mirai botnet that disrupted access to major internet platforms
doubling every 76 minutes. http://www.wired.com/... http://twitter.com/... Chris Bing / @bing_chris : ICYMI: the dude who created the Mirai botnet ran a DDoS mitigation service: http://krebsonsecurity...
Two Israeli men alleged to be co-owners of the recently hacked DDoS service vDOS arrested in Israel on Thursday in connection with FBI investigation
Two young Israeli men alleged to be the co-owners of a popular online attack-for-hire service were reportedly arrested in Israel on Thursday.
ProtonMail pays hackers ransom of $6K in Bitcoin to end DDoS attack
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes :