"Charges Filed in DDoS-For-Hire Attacks, Including Baltimore Schools Incident"

A Los Angeles man accused of running a "booter" service that facilitated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has been charged in federal court. According to court documents filed recently, Scott Esparza, also known as "Hazard," "co-administrated" the website Astrostress.com. The FBI seized the Astrostress domain in December 2022, along with many other booter services. For a fee, Esparza's service would enable his subscribers to direct floods of Internet traffic to victim computers in order to degrade or disrupt their Internet access. Astrostress' tools were allegedly used to launch a DDoS attack on Baltimore County Public Schools in February 2022. This article continues to discuss the crackdown on for-hire DDoS services.

The Record reports "Charges Filed in DDoS-For-Hire Attacks, Including Baltimore Schools Incident"

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