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FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-08-26

A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.

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FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia 2004-08-30
Anonymous
Unfortunate that money has lured these kids into cyber crime ... as if they weren't doing it BEFORE the money?

Do you think Paul Ashley went to any of these kids and taught them how to DoS over night? No, these kids were DoSing way before that and had a reputation for it.

Money didn't lure the...

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