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Cybercrooks are marketing a hardware-based tool for running denial of service attacks on telephone systems. The Telephone Denial of Service attacks (TDoS) rig is being sold by a group of cybercriminals called “TNT” from Eastern Europe via underground cybercrime forums. The tool, called “TNT Instant Up”, features a special …

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  1. PCS

    We need the phone numbers for the fake Indian computer "support" companies....

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      No point, as here they use chuck away mobiles or spoofed CLI's

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      1. Richard Jones 1
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        That Maybe True

        He did not say it was easy but I bet their 'leaders' do have phones that really beg to be rung at 3 :00 a.m. their time, - it is nice to dream.

        Frankly shooting the organisers would be too good; something slower would be better like endless phone ringing and music on hold played together 24 hours per day.

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  2. logistix
    FAIL

    I don't see what the big deal is other than it being an annoyance. Just a cat and mouse game of blocking those numbers just like we do for spam. Similarly, CDMA/GSM/3G jammers that jails and movie theaters used to use. I think those are illegal now though so people can call 911 when a kid dressed up as the joker starts shooting while eating popcorn.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    easy to kill

    Very easy to track and blacklist SIMs and hardware used for this,network footprints are very clear..so clear that a 4 line script can indentify them.

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