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Europol Launches Operation PowerOFF — Warns 75,000 DDoS Users and Takes Down 53 Domains
Authorities from 21 countries seized infrastructure and warned more than 75,000 users as the crackdown targeted booter services used for illegal attacks.
- On Thursday, Europol announced that authorities from 21 countries took down 53 DDoS-for-hire domains and arrested four people allegedly involved in illegal distributed denial-of-service operations.
- Operation PowerOFF targets "Booter services," platforms allowing users to rent DDoS swarms by compromising routers and IoTs to flood networks with traffic and render services inaccessible.
- Authorities seized databases containing data on more than 3 million criminal user accounts and issued 25 search warrants while removing more than 100 URLs advertising illegal DDoS-for-hire services.
- Officials sent more than 75,000 warning emails to participants and launched awareness campaigns with search engine ads targeting young people seeking illegal DDoS tools.
- Participating countries include the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, and Thailand, combating motivations ranging from curiosity and hacktivism to financial gain through extortion or service disruption.
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International law enforcement authorities have shut down dozens of cybercriminals' servers and arrested suspects. A total of 53 domains have been shut down, according to Europol. As reported by the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime at the Attorney General's Office in Frankfurt (ZIT) and the German Federal Criminal Office in Wiesbaden, 16 searches took place in Poland and Brazil, among others. The focus of the operation "Power Off" were…
CyberScoopcybernoz.comOfficials seize 53 DDoS-for-hire domains in ongoing crackdown
Authorities from 21 countries took down 53 domains and arrested four people allegedly involved in distributed denial-of-service operations used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals, Europol said Thursday. The globally coordinated effort dubbed “Operation PowerOFF” disrupted booter services and seized and dismantled infrastructure, including servers and databases, that supported the DDoS-for-hire services, officials said. Law enforcement agencies …
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