![]() ![]() ![]() “The damage of these attacks is substantial,” reads a statement from the Dutch National Police in a Reddit thread about the takedown.”Victims are out of business for a period of time, and spend money on mitigation and on (other) security measures.” WebStresser was one of many so-called “booter” services - virtual hired muscle that anyone can rent to knock nearly any website or Internet user offline. The action, dubbed “Operation Power Off,” targeted (previously ), one of the most active services for launching point-and-click distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service and arrested its alleged administrators.
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