Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
September 17 2021A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that...
Read moreBomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
December 1 2020A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching...
Read moreThe U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and...
Read moreThe co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and...
Read moreThe UK's National Crime Agency has hit on a simple way to stop teens from being sucked into cybercrime – using Google Ads.
Read moreCareer Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring
May 29 2020When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests...
Read moreUK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime
May 28 2020The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire...
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