DDoSer Who Terrorized German and UK Firms Gets Off Without Jail Time

Haythem Elmir
0 1
Read Time1 Minute, 44 Second

A German hacker who launched DDoS attacks and tried to extort ransom payments from German and UK firms was sentenced last month to one year and ten months of probation.

The hacker, identified by authorities only as 24-year-old Maik D., but known online as ZZb00t, was fingered for attacking companies such as eBay.de, DHL.de, billiger.de, hood.de, rakuten.de, DPD.de, EIS.de, ESL.eu, but also some UK firms.

Hacker would launch DDoS attacks and then extort victims

ZZb00t would act following the same pattern. He’d first warn companies via Twitter, and then launch DDoS attacks, taking down services from hours to up to a day.

Maik, who in real life was an IT security consultant, would often criticize companies for their poor security practices.

« Sadly but true @[REDACTED] your servers just sucks,” he wrote in one tweet. « Never thought that [REDACTED] was so extremely poorly protected. It’s more than embarrassing, » he wrote in another.

He’d often claim his actions were only for the purpose of exposing security weakness, claiming he was a vulnerability hunter.

But Maik wouldn’t launch DDoS attacks just out of the kindness of the kindness of his heart so that companies would improve security. The hacker would often send emails promising to stop attacks for a payment in Bitcoin.

Hacker arrested after one company pressed charges

His DDoS and extortion campaigns have been tracked all last year by German blog Wordfilter.de . A recently released Link11 report details the hacker’s tactics.

The hacker was active at the same time as another DDoS extortion team named XMR Squad, and Link11 claims in its report that there was a working relationship and coordination of attacks between ZZb00t and XMR Squad members.

Link11 says it documented over 300 of ZZb00t’s tweets related to attacks he carried out before German authorities arrested the suspect on May 23, last year, putting an end to his attacks.

 

to read the original article:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ddoser-who-terrorized-german-and-uk-firms-gets-off-without-jail-time/

Happy
Happy
0 %
Sad
Sad
0 %
Excited
Excited
0 %
Sleepy
Sleepy
0 %
Angry
Angry
0 %
Surprise
Surprise
100 %

Average Rating

5 Star
0%
4 Star
0%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%

Laisser un commentaire

Next Post

First-Ever Ransomware Found Using ‘Process Doppelgänging’ Attack to Evade Detection

Security researchers have spotted the first-ever ransomware exploiting Process Doppelgänging, a new fileless code injection technique that could help malware evade detection. The Process Doppelgänging attack takes advantage of a built-in Windows function, i.e., NTFS Transactions, and an outdated implementation of Windows process loader, and works on all modern versions of Microsoft Windows […]