A coalition of global law enforcement agencies has sent emails to more than 75,000 alleged cybercriminals who paid for a service that can take websites offline to launch cyberattacks.
On Thursday, Europol Coordinated operations announced against multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) for-hire services that allow criminals to launch cyberattacks without needing any hacking skills, or running their own infrastructure.
Part of the law enforcement action – called Operation Poweroff – involves Europol sending warning emails and letters to more than 75,000 people suspected of using these DDoS-for-hire services.
Europol said it obtained information about alleged cybercriminals by raiding and seizing servers associated with these services, allowing police to identify their registered users.
The action resulted in four arrests, 53 domains were taken down and police executed 24 search warrants.
DDoS attacks remain relatively common due to their ability to cause disruption, while also being relatively easy to execute, thanks in part to rental services. last year, Cloudflare said it has reduced It was said to be the largest DDoS attack ever, with a maximum rate of 29.7 terabits per second recorded. Over the past few years, the FBI has conducted many operations Against DDoS-for-hire services.
