A Huge DDoS Network was Taken Down by the US DOJ

According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), 48 domains were seized after it was discovered that they were offering distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on-demand as a service that criminals could exploit.  

This information was provided in a press release from the office of E Martin Estrada, the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. This release was intended to inform the public that in addition to these seizures, six defendants are being charged with crimes in connection with operating these platforms.  

 

With the addition of the DDoS attacks which are plaguing the internet, this news brings back to the forefront the concept of Cybercrime-as-a-Service, outlined in the Microsoft Digital Defence Report (MDDR) released in November 2022. 

It is a platform for performing distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) that primarily allows anyone to purchase and execute such attacks for free. Based on the software as a service (SaaS) business model, these services are lucrative because they allow the owner of an IoT botnet to conduct low-overhead attacks.

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