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