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Dutch Police and the UK's National Crime Agency have arrested the admins of Webstresser.org and seized the website. Webstresser allowed you to rent its services, and those services happen to be an array of Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Six of its admins spread out across, Canada, Croatia, Scotland, and Serbia have all been taken into custody. The hardware used has also been seized. The infrastructure was located in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. Great to see the LEOs getting serious about this type of cybercrime. The operation was named "Power Off."
"Don't do it," Gert Ras, head of the Dutch police's High Tech Crime unit, said. "By tracking down the DDoS service you use, we strip you of your anonymity, hand you a criminal record and put your victims in a position to claim back damages from you."
"Don't do it," Gert Ras, head of the Dutch police's High Tech Crime unit, said. "By tracking down the DDoS service you use, we strip you of your anonymity, hand you a criminal record and put your victims in a position to claim back damages from you."