Adam Mudd made more than US$385,000 on a DDoS-for-hire service before being busted.



The 19 year-old pled guilty to running one such DDoS-for-hire service. It became one of the most popular DDoS booter tools in the market.

The service was dubbed Titanium Stesser and was used to conduct DDoS attacks around the world.

He pled guilty to two counts of the Computer Misuse Act and one count of money laundering. He is expected to be sentenced in December.

Mudd was arrested in 2015 and was suspected of creating the DDoS service, using it himself and renting it out to other hackers. He was thought to have used it 592 DDoS attacks against 181 IP addresses between December 2013 and March last year, according to prosecutor Jonathan Polnay.

"Titanium Stresser is a computer program created by the defendant, and it is not an unimpressive piece of software in terms of design," Polnay told the court. "It carried out DDoS attacks, and it takes down computer networks and websites."

Investigators found logs in Mudds house that indicated that his rental service resulted in criminals using the Titanium Stesser to launch a whopping 1.7 Million DDoS attacks on targets worldwide.

Source: The Hacker News