Security News > 2022 > December > FBI Charges 6, Seizes 48 Domains Linked to DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks on behalf of other threat actors, effectively lowering the barrier to entry for malicious activity.

These websites, although claiming to provide testing services to assess the resilience of a paying customer's web infrastructure, are believed to have targeted several victims in the U.S. and elsewhere, such as educational institutions, government agencies, and gaming platforms.

The DoJ noted that millions of individuals were attacked using the DDoS-for-hire platforms.

"Established booter and stresser services offer a convenient means for malicious actors to conduct DDoS attacks by allowing such actors to pay for an existing network of infected devices, rather than creating their own," the FBI said.

"Booter and stresser services may also obscure attribution of DDoS activity."

The development comes four years after the DoJ and FBI took similar steps in December 2018 to seize 15 domains that advertised computer attack platforms like Critical-boot[.

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