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     Customers of former DDoS-for-hire site WebStresser are now chased by police and law enforcement agencies. WebStresser was seized by authorities from the US, UK, and the Netherlands in April 2018. Users registered on WebStresser are in for a bad ride as police authorities plan to track those who conducted small-scale DDoS attacks. The popular DDoS-for-hire site was shut down in April 2018 after authorities found that the site was responsible for over four million attacks in a span of three years. Once WebStresser was seized up, police uncovered information of its more than  150,000  registered users. Currently, UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is leading the way to track down all the users, followed by police authorities from 19 countries around the world. “In the United Kingdom, a number of webstresser.org users have recently been visited by the police, who have seized over 60 personal electronic devices from them for analysis as part of Operation Power OFF. UK p

FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged The FBI just saved the Christmas. The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 "DDoS-for-hire" websites and charged three individuals running some of these services. DDoS-for-hire , or "Booter" or "Stresser," services rent out access to a network of infected devices, which then can be used by anyone, even the least tech-savvy individual, to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against any website and disrupt its access. In recent years, multiple hacking groups  ruined Christmas Day  for millions of gamers by taking down  PlayStation, Xbox networks  and other gaming servers using massive DDoS attacks. "Booter services such as those named in this action allegedly cause attacks on a wide array of victims in the United States and abroad, including financial institutions, universities, internet service p