A Utah resident named Austin Thompson has pleaded guilty to performing DDoS attacks against multiple victims from 2013 to 2014. These victims ranged from small Twitch streamers to major gaming companies such as EA, Sony, and Microsoft. A Twitter user going by the handle @DerpTrolling would announce on Twitter that they were about to perform an attack on a particular target using their “Gaben Laser Beam””. After an attack went live
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