Security News > 2020 > January > Georgia Man Admits to Launching DDoS Attack

A Georgia man has admitted in court to employing a third-party to launch a distributed denial of service attack.

Preston is the co-founder of BackConnect Security LLC, a company that provides protection against large-scale DDoS attacks.

During a DDoS attack, a large volume of web traffic is directed toward a victim's resources, such as a server or another computer system, to either slow it down or completely take it offline.

According to court documents, in or around December 2015, Preston asked the DDoS-for-hire service to initiate attacks against the victim company, which disrupted the company's business and caused damage.

The non-profit apparently considered working with BackConnect, but started experiencing DDoS attacks after informing the company that it would contract a different entity for DDoS protection.

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