BackConnect, Inc.
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet |
| Founded 📆 | 2016 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Newport Beach, CA United States |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Bryant Townsend (Co-founder, CEO) Marshal Webb (Co-founder, CTO) |
| Services | Website Performance Security as a Service |
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Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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BackConnect, Inc. is a U.S. company headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with multiple points of presence (PoPs) in North America and Europe. BackConnect is a cloud platform based company that provides services for website applications, network infrastructure, VPNs, and other internet applications such as gaming.[1]
History[edit]
BackConnect, Inc. was founded in 2016 by Bryant Townsend and Marshal Webb. The company is privately owned and has yet to receive any external funding.[2]
The company received media attention in September 2016 for its role in taking down vDOS, the world's largest stresser service at the time,[3] as well as it's affiliated qBot network that was used to carry out DDoS attacks. The take down was performed by a BGP hijack against vDOS' panel and stresser infrastructure, along with the removal of the supporting botnet's C&C with the help of internet service providers.[4][5] These actions caused hackers to retaliate by sending DDoS attacks over 200Gbit/s for close to 2 weeks straight, although proving ineffective, against BackConnect's network.[4] BackConnect received media attention again in October 2016 for being the first security firm to identify the Mirai botnet as being behind the record-breaking Internet of Things (IoT) DDoS attacks against Akamai and Dyn.[6][7][8][9]
Notable Clients[edit]
- Free Software Foundation - Service Donation[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Internet of Things Sucks So Bad Even 'Amateurish' Malware Is Enough". Motherboard. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "BackConnect, Inc. | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Times, Tech (2016-09-12). "FBI Helps Take Down 2 Israeli Teens Behind vDOS: Online Service For DDoS Attacks Made Over $600,000 In 2 Years". Tech Times. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Cyber battle rages on Internet after arrest of cyber crime suspects - Archer Security Group". Archer Security Group. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "DDoS Attack Blamed for Massive Outages". Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "How 1.5 Million Connected Cameras Were Hijacked to Make an Unprecedented Botnet". Motherboard. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "Blame the Internet of Things for Destroying the Internet Today". Motherboard. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "Can't Stop the Mirai Malware". www.bankinfosecurity.com. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Ashok, India. "The massive DDoS attack that almost brought down US internet – how it happened and why". Yahoo News UK. Yahoo News UK. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ↑ "gnu.org". www.gnu.org. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
External links[edit]
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