Security News > 2024 > July > Police infiltrates, takes down DigitalStress DDoS-for-hire service
DDoS-for-hire service DigitalStress was taken down on July 2 in a joint law enforcement operation led by the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland also arrested its owner this month, and NCA agents infiltrated the communication services used to plan distributed denial-of-service attacks, collecting data on DigitalStress's "Customers."
"The disruption targeting digitalstress.su, a criminal marketplace offering DDos capabilities, was made in partnership with the Police Service of Northern Ireland," the NCA says in a seizure banner displayed on the DigitalStress website.
Others involved in the booter service confirmed on the operation's Telegram channel that Skiop has been unreachable since July 2.
"Anyone using these services while our mirror site was in place has now made themselves known to law enforcement agencies around the world."
Last week, Spanish authorities also arrested three suspects linked to DDoS attacks against governments and organizations in NATO countries using DDoSia, a DDoS platform operated by pro-Russian hacktivists.