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    Police take down the world's largest DDoS-for-hire service

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    04.26.2018

    The internet might be slightly safer against distributed denial of service attacks in the near future... slightly. Police in twelve countries have taken down WebStresser, believed to be the world's largest service for paid DDoS attacks. The joint campaign (Operation Power Off) seized WebStresser's infrastructure in the US, UK and the Netherlands, and busted site administrators ranging as far as Australia and Hong Kong.