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19-Year-Old Teenage Hacker Behind DDoS-for-Hire Service Pleads Guilty

Adam Mudd, 19, pled guilty to running one of the most popular DDoS booter tools in the market to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Titanium Stresser was used to conduct coordinated DDoS attacks around the world and brought Mudd an income of more than US$385,000 (..315,000 A$505,000) Mudd was arrested at his home in 2015, and will be sentenced in December. Mudd allegedly launched 592 DDoS-for-hire attacks against 181 IP addresses.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/11/titanium-stresser-ddos-tool.html

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