"FBI Seizes 13 More Domains Linked to DDoS-For-Hire Services"

The US Justice Department (DOJ) has announced the court-ordered seizure of 13 Internet domains associated with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)-for-hire services, as part of an ongoing initiative against computer attack booter services. This set of seizures represents the third wave of US law enforcement actions against major booter services that allow paying users to launch powerful DDoS attacks in which computers are flooded with information and prevented from accessing the Internet. In December 2022, the FBI also targeted leading stresser services by seizing an additional 48 domains. Ten previously disrupted platforms registered new domains, allowing them to remain online. The DOJ stated that ten of the thirteen domains recently seized are reincarnations of services that were taken down in December during an earlier search that targeted leading booter services. The FBI tested the seized booter services domains by opening or renewing accounts with each of them and launching DDoS attacks against agency-controlled computers to determine the effects on target computers. These tests confirmed the functionality of the booters, with the FBI stating that certain attacks took the targeted devices offline despite their high-capacity Internet connections. This article continues to discuss the DOJ's seizure of 13 more domains linked to DDoS-for-hire platforms.

Bleeping Computer reports "FBI Seizes 13 More Domains Linked to DDoS-For-Hire Services"