In January 2020, Ubisoft filed a lawsuit against the operator of SNG.one, a website that allegedly provides DDoS attacks against online games such as Rainbow Six Siege. In a default judgment handed down earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in favor of Ubisoft and ordered it to pay more than $153,000.

Prior to the lawsuit, the SNG.one website advertised itself as a service that tested firewalls against attacks. However, Ubisoft claimed that its operators also offered the service on other websites, including r6s.support, and specifically targeted Rainbow Six Siege for DDoS attacks. It also alleged that when the lawsuit was filed, the defendants "hastily attempted to conceal evidence of their involvement, including posting a false notice on one of their websites claiming that the domain had been seized by Microsoft and Ubisoft."

Now the seizure is true: Dot Esports reports that after the defendants failed to respond to the lawsuit, Ubisoft filed for a default judgment in February, and earlier this month its request was granted: as a result, Benjamin Ruesnick, Dennis Crook, Roland= Daniel Suess were ordered to pay Ubisoft a total of $153,094.04.

As an interesting aside, almost all of this amount is paid to their lawyers:

The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of $153,094.04 for DDoS services and websites they operated (sng.one, r6.support, r6s.support, stressed-stresser- stressingstressers.com, r6ddos.com, all of which are currently offline) and ordered to transfer control of the associated domain names to Ubisoft. They are also legally prohibited from interfering with people trying to play Rainbow Six Siege, including "impairing the integrity, availability, or condition of the R6S servers or network."

The incidence and impact of DDoS attacks against Rainbow Six Siege has improved considerably over the past few years, but remains an ongoing concern. In its latest "Top Issues and Community Concerns" update, Ubisoft stated that it "continues to look for ways to continually improve to protect players from DDoS attacks," especially on consoles.