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#infosec | US Cybersecurity Firm Founder Admits Funding DDoS Attacks

  • Wire_Services--Nationalcybersecurity.com
  • published date: 2020-01-21 18:59:00 UTC

Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between December 2015 and February 2016. DDoS attacks prevent a website from functioning by bombarding it with so much…

An American businessman who co-founded a cybersecurity company has admitted to hiring criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against others. Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-s… [+2648 chars]