Telegram Is Cooperating With Authorities, For Now - This is good news for the benign side of the cyber world. What we in the #DDoS mitigation industry observe are Telegram channels for e.g. #marketplaces for #DDoSforhire services or #threatactor coordination.

Seeing that #Telegram seizes to be the safe haven for shady, or straight up illegal activities that are a burden to the #Internet at large is really good news.

#UK creates fake #DDoSForHire sites to identify cybercriminals

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-creates-fake-ddos-for-hire-sites-to-identify-cybercriminals/

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law. But until recently, their biggest concern wasn’t avoiding capture or shutdown by the feds: It was minimizing harassment from unhappy customers or victims, and insulating themselves against incessant attacks from competing DDoS-for-hire services.

And then there are booter store operators like John Dobbs, a 32-year-old computer science graduate student living in Honolulu, Hawaii. For at least a decade until late last year, Dobbs openly operated IPStresser[.]com, a popular and powerful attack-for-hire service that he registered with the state of Hawaii using his real name and address. Likewise, the domain was registered in Dobbs’s name and hometown in Pennsylvania.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/thinking-of-hiring-or-running-a-booter-service-think-again/

Saved the best quote till the end, from @nixonnixoff :

"“When a booter service claims they don’t share logs, they’re lying because logs are legal leverage for when the booter service operator gets arrested,” Nixon said. “And when they do, you’re going to be the first people they throw under the bus.”

#booter #stresser #ddosforhire #ddos #Dobbs #IPStresser