Dutch police take down 15 DDoS services in a week
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ZDNet
In a press release published today, Dutch police said they have successfully taken down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in the span of a week, as part of one of their most successful crackdowns against online DDoS service providers.
The DDoS-for-hire websites, also known as DDoS booters or DDoS stressors, allowed users to sign up and launch DDoS attacks against websites and other internet infrastructure.
Dutch authorities said the takedowns took place last week, and they received support from web hosting companies, domain registrars, Europol, Interpol, and the FBI. Authorities did not release the name of the 15 DDoS services. This is the second time in the past six months that Dutch police intervened against DDoS-for-hire services.
