250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

ronjor · Feb 1, 2019

More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/02/250-webstresser-users-to-face-legal-action/

FanJ · Feb 1, 2019

Related Europol Press Release - 28 January 2019

Authorities across the world going after users of biggest DDoS-for-hire website
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsr...-after-users-of-biggest-ddos-for-hire-website

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In the Netherlands, the police and the prosecutor’s office have developed a dedicated project, known as Hack_Right, to deal with young first-time offenders in order to prevent them from going onto more serious crimes. A Dutch user of webstresser.org has already received this alternative sanction.
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ronjor · Feb 4, 2019

Police raids target 'hundreds of UK web attackers'

BBC 04 Feb 2019
UK police have seized more than 60 computers and other gadgets suspected of being used to carry out web attacks.
The raids were part of an international operation targeting customers of Webstresser, which Europol calls the "world's biggest marketplace" for distributed denial of service attacks.
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ronjor · Feb 7, 2019

Stress Test: Police Visit Webstresser Stresser/Booter Users

Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) February 7, 2019
Seized Customer Data Appears to Be Powering Ongoing Dutch and UK Probes
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