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Omniscient, the administrator of Hack Forums, the Internet's biggest freely accessible hacking-related forum, has announced on Friday, October 26, that he'll be removing the DDoS-for-Hire section from the forum. His decision came after a series of events that have tied his forum with DDoS attacks carried with the Mirai botnet. It all started when a Hack Forums user named Anna-Senpai released the source code of the Mirai malware via the forum, which drew a massive and immediate attention from security researchers. A person who had taken Mirai's source code and modified it, had then used it to launch a DDoS attack on the network of Dyn, a managed DNS service, which resulted in a large section of the Internet becoming unavailable. Flashpoint report puts law enforcement focus on Hack Forums Following this incident, security firm Flashpoint published a report suggesting that Hack Forums members might be behind the attack. Three days before taking hi... ...