Charges filed in DDoS-for-hire attacks, including Baltimore schools incident

A Los Angeles man who allegedly ran a “booter” service that facilitated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire was charged this week in federal court. Scott Esparza, who goes by “Hazard,” “co-administrated” the website Astrostress.com, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. The Astrostress domain was seized by the FBI in December 2022 along with

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