Europol has announced the removal of distributed service refusal (DDOS) for the rental used to launch thousands of cyber-over the world.
In connection with the operation, the Polish authorities arrested four people, and the US confiscated nine domains related to the already non -existent platforms.
“It is assumed that the suspects stand for six separate STASSER/Booter services, which allowed customers to flood the sites and servers with harmful traffic – beating them offline in just 10 euros,” Europol – Note In a statement.
The services named CFXAPI, CFXSECURITY, NESTRESS, JETSESS, QUICDown and ZAPCUT are said to be an important place in launching extensive attacks on schools, public services, businesses and game platforms between 2022 and 2025.
Europol said the platforms offered a “smooth user interface”, which allows the malicious subject to virtually no technical examination to give DDOS attacks simply by entering the target IP, choosing the type of attack and paying fee.
Special services are usually advertised on underground forums, often masked into legal stress testing tools, but designed to violate web resources, allowing their customers to resolve the flood of false traffic on the target site, making them unavailable for real users.
“Unlike traditional botnets that require control over a lot of infected devices, Syster/Booter Services Industrial DDOS Attacks through centralized, rented infrastructure,” the Europol said.
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According to the pictures, passionate about internet archves, cfxsecurityLocated on the CFXSecurity (.) Bet and CFXSecurity.CC domains, are sold as “Stress Testing Service No. 1” and that it provided “comprehensive stress, ensuring that your web and services are ready to withdraw a thunderstorm.”
The service offered three plans, a starter for $ 20 a month, a premium for $ 50 a month and a $ 130 enterprise a month. Prompt (“Quickdown (.) Pro”), similarly, cost Its kit is from 20 to month to $ 379/month.
Cloud Company Radware, in report Posted in August 2024, showed that Quickdown is one of the new stresses that have taken hybrid architecture, which combines both botnets and dedicated servers. Quickdown is said to have submitted “Botnet Addon and new plans related to the Botnet network” in September 2023.
The latest action, which is conducted in cooperation with the Dutch and German authorities, is part of a constant effort called Operation Poweroff, which is aimed at dismantling the infrastructure that promotes DDOS activities for rental.
In December 2024, there was a set of 27 voltage services made in offline modeAlong with the announcement of charges of six different persons in the Netherlands and the United States
