An nameless reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Authorities in Germany this week seized Web servers that powered FlyHosting, a darkish internet providing that catered to cybercriminals working DDoS-for-hire companies, KrebsOnSecurity has discovered. FlyHosting first marketed on cybercrime boards in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based internet hosting agency that was open for enterprise to anybody in search of a dependable place to host malware, botnet controllers, or DDoS-for-hire infrastructure. A assertion launched in the present day by the German Federal Felony Police Workplace says they served eight search warrants on March 30, and recognized 5 people aged 16-24 suspected of working “an web service” since mid-2021. The German authorities didn’t identify the suspects or the Web service in query.
“Beforehand unknown perpetrators used the Web service offered by the suspects specifically for so-called ‘DDoS assaults’, i.e. the simultaneous sending of a lot of information packets by way of the Web for the aim of disrupting different information processing methods,” the assertion reads. The German authorities mentioned that on account of the DDoS assaults facilitated by the defendants, the web sites of assorted firms in addition to these of the Hesse police have been overloaded in a number of circumstances since mid-2021, “in order that they may solely be operated to a restricted extent or now not at instances.” The assertion says police seized cell phones, laptops, tablets, storage media and handwritten notes from the unnamed defendants, and confiscated servers operated by the suspects in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands.
