Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

guest · Oct 2, 2019

Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
Police seize servers from bulletproof hosting provider that harbored tens of DDoS botnets
October 2, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-police-take-down-hornets-nest-of-ddos-botnets/

Dutch police have taken down this week a bulletproof hosting provider that has sheltered tens of IoT botnets that have been responsible for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks around the world, ZDNet has learned.
KV HOSTED ALL SORTS OF BOTNETS
This year alone, KV hosted tens of these DDoS botnets, most of which have been compiled in this Twitter mega-thread by threat intelligence firm Bad Packets LLC.

The botnets have been created using so-called "IoT malware," which is malware designed to infect Linux-based operating systems that run on routers and other "smart" (Internet of Things) devices.
KV HOSTED DDOS BOOTER SERVICES
Furthermore, KV also served as a hosting provider for some botnets that were part of DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter) services, according to Troy Mursch, co-founder of Bad Packets.

All in all, Mursch said that "in 2019, Bad Packets detected 440,261 exploit attempts originating from and/or referencing malware payloads hosted by KV Solutions."
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TWO ARRESTED
Dutch authorities made the raid public today, in a press release, which also mentioned the arrests of two suspects, a 24-year-old from Veendam, and a 28-year-old from Middelburg.
The two -- Marco B., 24, from Veendam, and Angelo K., 28, from Middelburg -- are believed to be the founders of a network of five interconnected companies. Dutch privacy laws do not permit revealing a suspect's full name, so we honored this requirement for our reporting.

As it happened in other raids of bulletproof hosting providers, the data from the seized servers will most likely lead to other arrests, such as botnet operators and malware authors.
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