Bill Toulas reports:
The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.
The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to seize infrastructure and arrest the operators.
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While Dstat.cc did not provide the DDoS attack services themselves, it helped facilitate attacks by allowing threat actors to showcase the effectiveness of their DDoS attack capabilities. It also provided reviews and recommendations on stressors that could be used for different types of attacks.
Read more at Bleeping Computer.