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Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push
2024-12-12 12:01

Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains The Europol-coordinated Operation PowerOFF struck again this week as cross-border cops pulled the plug on 27 more domains...

27 DDoS-for hire platforms seized by law enforcement
2024-12-12 10:20

As part of an ongoing international crackdown known as Operation PowerOFF, international law enforcement has seized over two dozen platforms used to carry out Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)...

Europol Dismantles 27 DDoS Attack Platforms Across 15 Nations; Admins Arrested
2024-12-12 06:15

A global law enforcement operation has failed 27 stresser services that were used to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and took them offline as part of a multi-year...

Operation PowerOFF shuts down 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms
2024-12-11 16:34

Law enforcement agencies from 15 countries have taken 27 DDoS-for-hire services offline, also known as "booters" or "stressers," arrested three administrators, and identified 300 customers of the...

Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers
2024-12-02 21:11

South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser's...

Matrix Botnet Exploits IoT Devices in Widespread DDoS Botnet Campaign
2024-11-27 05:21

A threat actor named Matrix has been linked to a widespread distributed denial-of-service (DoD) campaign that leverages vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in Internet of Things (IoT) devices to...

German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested
2024-11-04 12:02

German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service...

DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
2024-11-01 14:50

The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. [...]

UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors
2024-11-01 10:58

Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Multiple UK councils had their websites either knocked offline or were inaccessible to residents this week after...

U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks
2024-10-17 09:03

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year,...