Webstresser.org, a pop DDoS-for-Hire website service on Midweek was taken downward past times regime from the US, UK, Netherlands, as well as diverse other countries inward a major international investigation as well as arrests receive got been made.
The website is blamed for to a greater extent than than iv 1000000 cyber attacks globally inward the past times 3 years as well as had over 134,000 registered users at the fourth dimension of the takedown.
The operation, dubbed “Operation Power OFF,” targeted Webstresser.org, a website service which launched DDoS attacks all over the basis at the buyer’s bidding. It involved police enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Serbia, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Germany, Australia, Hongkong, Canada, as well as the States of America, coordinating alongside Europol.
The domain refer was seized past times the U.S. Department of Defence.
The website allowed criminals to purchase attacks on businesses as well as was responsible for cyber attacks all over the world, including a British suspect who used the site to assault several high-street banks concluding year, causing hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage.
“As percentage of the operational activity, an address was identified as well as searched inward Bradford as well as a pose out of items seized. NCA officers believe an private linked to the address used the webstresser service to target 7 of the UK’s biggest banks inward attacks inward Nov 2017,” UK’s National Crime Agency said inward a statement.
The site was ane of the diverse websites operating openly equally a “stresser” service that offered to exam a company’s cybersecurity defenses. According to investigators, the gang behind the website sold cyber attacks for equally footling equally $14.99.
Seven suspected administrators receive got been arrested over the concluding few days or subjected to searches past times authorities. as well as computers receive got been seized inward UK, Holland, as well as elsewhere.
Law enforcement also took “further measures” against frequent users of the service, details of which receive got non soundless been disclosed.
“By taking downward world’s largest illegal DDOS seller inward a worldwide articulation police enforcement performance based on NCA intelligence, nosotros receive got made an unprecedented touching on DDOS cybercrime,” said Gert Ras, Head of the National High Tech Crime Unit at the Dutch National Police. “Not exclusively were the administrators of this illegal service arrested, but also users volition directly aspect upwards prosecution as well as civil liability for caused damage.”
