Crime FBI crackdown reduced denial-of-service attack sizes by 85 percent

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down 15 of the largest distributed denial of service for hire websites in the world in December, leading to an 85 percent reduction in attack size worldwide.

That’s according to today’s report from Nexusguard, a cybersecurity company that mitigates DDoS attacks. The FBI crackdown was announced Dec. 20 and led to the shutdown of numerous websites that would sell high-bandwidth internet attack services under the guise of “stress testing.”

Examples of DDoS-for-hire websites include the Lizard Stresser, a criminal service produced by Lizard Squad, a hacker group best known for the 2014 Christmas Day attack on the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Stressers, or booters, Nexusguard explains, are websites that allow people to pay money to have a tsunami of internet traffic directed at a particular service, knocking it offline for a period of time.

These attack services take advantage of vulnerabilities discovered in internet devices — such as connected video cameras, wireless routers, smart products and even cloud services — using bots to generate useless internet traffic that overwhelms legitimate traffic going to a website or internet service.

 
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