Authorities in Poland have arrested four people accused of administrating and selling access to distributed denial of service (DDoS) services, according to a press release from Europol. The suspects are believed to have operated six so-called “stresser” or “booter” services that enabled customers across the world to launch thousands of attacks on targets ranging from…
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International crackdown disrupts DDoS-for-hire operations
In a sweeping international crackdown, law enforcement agencies from 15 countries, including the United States and multiple European nations, have dismantled 27 of the most popular platforms used for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Europol announced Wednesday. The operation, known as PowerOFF, has led to the arrest of three administrators in France and Germany…