Operation PowerOFF is the ongoing, coordinated response by international law enforcement targeting criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide. Which is it: Six or seven? The seventh suspect is in the UK-“ DDoS-for-hire services taken out”: … For each one six defendants who each allegedly operated at least one booter website … the FBI posed as a customer and conducted test attacks to confirm that the DDoS-for-hire site functioned as advertised. While some of the sites claimed to offer “stresser” services, ostensibly to help organizations test whether their networks could withstand a DDoS flood, after reviewing “thousands of communications between … administrators and their customers clear that both parties are aware that the customer is not attempting to attack their own computers,” according to an FBI affidavit. … The FBI, the UK’s National Crime Agency, and the Netherlands police have launched an advertising campaign across search engines, to deter would-be cybercriminals searching for DDoS services. It’s not just in the U.S., notes Jessica Lyons Hardcastle-“ Sting op takes down 50 DDoS-for-hire domains, seven people collared”:Įuropol put the number of takedowns that were part of this Operation Power Off at 50 a total of seven suspected booter site administrators detained thus far … the European cops said. … The Christmas holiday a popular time for DDoS operators to launch attacks on gaming services. … DDoS services have been used to extort news websites to remove unflattering articles, … to demand money from businesses to make the attacks stop to knock competitors in a video game offline. The services are often used for harassment, extortion and criminal mischief.
The FBI in the process of seizing the websites were used to launch … millions of so-called DDoS attacks around the world.
In all, the US obtained a court order to seize 48 websites, and six people were criminally charged in relation to the takedowns, according to federal prosecutors. “ Harassment, extortion and criminal mischief” What’s the craic? William Turton reports-“ US Is Seizing 48 Websites in Sting of Cyberattack-for-Hire”: Not to mention: DJ Earworm’s annual thing. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we service their denials. And the FBI says the operators knew full well what they’re used for.
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