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Ubisoft sues operators of four DDoS-for-hire services

posted onJanuary 20, 2020
by l33tdawg
ZDNet
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Gaming company Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against five individuals for operating four DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter) services that were used to launch DDoS attacks on Rainbow Six Siege multiplayer servers.

The legal complaint, filed last week, is the culmination of a months-long process that started back in September last year.

At the time, Ubisoft noticed a sharp increase in DDoS attacks targeting its Rainbow Six Siege (R6S) game. The reasons for the DDoS attacks was a new game update that just rolled out at the time, which also resulted in a reset of the global player ranking. R6S players discovered that they could cheat their way up the new ranking by launching DDoS attacks on current matches and forcing their opponents to disconnect -- earning unearned victories.

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