One of Mudd’s satisfied customers must have been the hacking group Lizard Squad. In fact, it was, for a time, the most popular DDoS-for-hire service available online. Those attacks were launched against 181 IP addresses between December 2013 and March 2015, the month that Mudd was arrested and the service was shut down.Īccording to Silicon Angle, Mudd kept detailed logs of all the attacks that relied on Titanium Stressor. Investigators determined that Mudd’s stressor – which is a tool used to flood networks with data, bogging them down until they’re dead in the water, non-functioning and vulnerable to compromise – was used in more than 1.7 million DDoS attacks worldwide. Investigators are still working out the total amount Mudd made from the attacks, but their preliminary estimate is around $385,000.
He also sold it online and ran it as a service, distributing it to cyber crooks.
He didn’t just use it to launch his own DDoS attacks. A 19-year-old UK teenager from Hertfordshire has pleaded guilty to creating and running the Titanium Stresser booter service, with which he launched 594 denial of service (DDoS) attacks.Īccording to a statement put out by the Bedfordshire Police, Adam Mudd developed the tool when he was just 15 years old.
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