UK National Crime Agency reveals it ran fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect users’ data

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Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed on Friday that it had set up a number of fake DDoS-for-hire sites to infiltrate the online criminal underground.
It said that users who registered for the sites were not given access to cybercrime tools but instead had their data collated by investigators.
DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks are among the least sophisticated forms of criminal cyber mischief. The attacks — which overwhelm network resources with traffic to effectively take them offline — are incapable of stealing or modifying data on the victim server.

UK National Crime Agency reveals it ran fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect users’ data

British cyber police created several fake sites intended to expose customers of underground markets that sell user-friendly software for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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[Zero Knowledge]

Interesting tactics. Destroy trust in such services by running them yourself and you render the underground's trust in them to basically 0.

It's not about seizing domains or websites or even shutting down services or making arrests, it's about making people not even bother using them because they don't trust them. Not a bad strategy, can't beat them join them and sow distrust in the community who uses them.

 

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Interesting tactics. Destroy trust in such services by running them yourself and you render the underground's trust in them to basically 0.

It's not about seizing domains or websites or even shutting down services or making arrests, it's about making people not even bother using them because they don't trust them. Not a bad strategy, can't beat them join them and sow distrust in the community who uses them.

It is good that they took the initiative to prevent or reduce the number of attacks in the future
I hope they will take the same or similar action for the ransomware attacks .

 

[Zero Knowledge]

I hope they will take the same or similar action for the ransomware attacks .

That's a hard problem because most malicious actors are located in non-extradition countries. The way they will and are going to tackle it is by going after the payment/cash out methods and the tumblers and exchanges. You see that happening now but whether it can totally stop it is another matter.