A major joint operation involving law enforcement agencies from 15 countries has dismantled 27 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms.
The operation, dubbed “Operation PowerOFF,” has also led to the arrest of multiple administrators of such platforms and helped authorities identify hundreds of their customers.
The scope of the operation
DDoS-for-hire services, also known as “stressers” or “booters,” allow users to launch debilitating attacks against online targets for a fee. These at
