Coordinated Action Targets DDoS-for-Hire Empire with Arrests and Seizures

The Polish authorities have succeeded in dismantling a sophisticated criminal network offering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire services to hit the cybercrime infrastructure hard. As the result of a coordinated operation, four people were arrested who were suspected of operating a number of illegal platforms which helped facilitate thousands of cyberattacks in the world.

It is believed that the accused was responsible for six different stressors and booters, namely Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, Neostress, Jetstress, Quickdown, and Zapcut, which allowed users to launch DDoS attacks at a minimum of €10. During the period 2022-2025, these platforms were designed with ease of use in mind, so that any individual, regardless of their level of technical expertise, could be able to carry out large-scale cyberattacks. 

A user was only required to enter a target IP address, choose the type and duration of an attack, and then submit payment. The service would then flood that system with excessive traffic, disrupting or disabling access to websites and digital infrastructure. 

An extensive range of targets had been compromised in these attacks, including educational institutions, governmental organizations, private companies, and servers that hosted online video games.

With the enforcement action, the international community has made a major strides in curbing the growing threat of for-hire cybe

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