DDoS-for-hire

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2024
International law enforcement operation shut down DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc

German police shut down DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc and arrested two men accused of operating the site used for launching DDoS attacks. German police shut down the DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc that allowed its customers to launch DDoS attacks. Two men, aged 19 and 28 from Darmstadt and Rhein-Lahn, were arrested in Germany for allegedly managing criminal […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2023
NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has set up a number of fake DDoS-for-hire sites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. The UK National Crime Agency announced it has infiltrated the online criminal marketplace by setting up several sites purporting to offer DDoS-for-hire services. DDoS-for-hire or ‘booter’ services allows registered users to […]