Three former U.S. intelligence and military officials have admitted providing sophisticated computer hacking technology to the United Arab Emirates and agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to resolve criminal charges in an agreement that the Justice Department described Tuesday as the first of its kind.
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DDoS Hide & Seek: On the Effectiveness of a Booter Services Takedown labs.ripe.net/Members/daniel_kopp/ddos-hide-and-seek In this article, we investigated booter-based DDoS attacks in the wild and the impact of an FBI takedown targeting fifteen booter websites in December 2018. We investigated and compared attack properties of multiple booter services by launching DDoS attacks against our own […]
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An Ohio man who was fined $60 million last year for violating anti-money laundering laws pleaded guilty Wednesday to moving hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency on behalf of dark web marketplaces. Larry Dean Harmon, 38, admitted to running Helix—a cryptocurrency mixer or tumbler that allowed customers to send bitcoin in a way that […]