Four Plead Guilty in FBI’s Latest DDoS-for-Hire Sweep

Four US citizens have pleaded guilty to committing cybercrimes after the FBI announced it took down 13 domains linked to hacker-for-hire services. The seizures announced by the US Department of Justice this week form a third wave of actions against prominent booter/stressor services that allow paying hackers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against various targets. “Data relating to the operation of booter sites previously seized by law enforcement show that hund