• Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.

    So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.

    • FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip
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      18 hours ago

      These DDOS for hire services make use of hacked machines as botnets to perform the DDOS attacks.

      So while the people paying for the service didn’t hack anything, the people performing the DDOS certainly did.