WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The U.S. Justice Department today announced court-authorized actions taken to disrupt some of the world's leading Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Internet of Things (IoT) botnet services.
U.S. authorities continue to focus resources on charging DDoS botnet administrators and seizing infrastructure, like websites, that allow paying users to launch powerful DDoS attacks. These attacks flood targeted computers and servers with information to prevent them from being able to access the internet. In recent years, DDoS, aka "booter," services have continued to proliferate as the...