ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – U.S. authorities have seized services associated with eight Distributed Denial of Service-for-hire domains, which purportedly launch tens of thousands of DDoS attacks a day, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
A DDoS attack is an attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a server by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic using a botnet, preventing them from being able to access the internet. “Vac Stresser” and “Mythical Stress” are among the seized services, according to the DOJ.
In the last four years, more than 11 defendants have been charged in Anchorage and Los Angeles for facilitating DDoS-for-hire services, the DOJ claims. More than 100 domains associated with the services have also been seized.
In addition to the website seizures, Homeland Security Investigations, Department of War Office of Inspector General’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Netherlands Police have launched an advertising campaign using targeted placement ads in search engines triggered by keywords associated with DDoS activities…