"DDoS is not a game. It's a crime!" Europol targets the youth in latest bid to take down DDoS-for-hire infrastructure

By the very nature of modern DDoS attacks, which often deploy large botnets dispersed over a large geographical area, it's difficult to pin the blame on any one mastermind. That said, last week a number of different countries collaborated in a Europol-supported effort designed to take criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructure offline.

21 different countries in total now participate in Operation PowerOFF, which has been an ongoing effort since at least 2018. 75,000 users tied to the use of DDoS-for-hire...