- Europol has announced the closure of several stress / booter services in the EU
- Four people were arrested in Poland
- The police in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Poland participated in Operation Poweroff
The police have dismantled a large DDOS operation for hiring and arrested four people suspected of having directed it.
In a press release, international police said that arrests were part of Operation Poweroff, a continuous effort targeting the DDOS-Pour-Embauche activity.
Polish authorities have arrested four people suspected of performing several stress / booter services: CFXAPI, CFXSECURITY, Neostresst, Jetstress, Quickdown and Zapcut.
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These services would have facilitated “generalized attacks against schools, government services, businesses and game platforms” between 2022 and 2025.
They presented a “smooth” interface that lowered the barrier for the entrance: users did not need any particular technical knowledge to set up an attack. All they had to do was know the victim’s IP address and have € 10 to pay the attack (the cost would increase according to the desired duration of the attack).
As part of the effort, the Dutch authorities were deploying false boot sites, designed to warn users looking for DDOS-Pour-Location services. They also entered the data from the start-up websites hosted in data centers in the Netherlands, providing their partners with the crucial information necessary to make the arrests.
In the United States, the police have seized nine areas associated with the services of Botter and in Germany, the police identified one of the suspects. Europol said he had provided analytical and operational support throughout the investigation.
The difference between usual ddos boots and stress / booter services is that DDOS botnets are generally executed by a single threat player, which also works on the widening of the botnet by deploying malware and software.
Stress / booter services, on the other hand, are announced as a white hat solution, offering a “legitimate” service to test the resilience of a network or a website. However, in most cases, these are only concealations for obvious illegal activities, which is why the police generally close them.
Via Infosecurity magazine
