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 ...

The National Crime Agency (NCA) and law enforcement agencies from 14 countries are tracking down users of the former WebStresser DDoS-for-hire service, with personal laptops seized and prosecutions a ...

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to ...

EXCLUSIVE —Link11, a DDoS mitigation firm, says that DDoS attacks fell 60% across Europe following the takedown of WebStresser, the largest DDoS-for-hire portal on the market. The service was taken ...

DDoS attackIs an attack that disables access by simultaneously accessing the target service from a large number of machines and putting the target service overloaded. The Netherlands police announced ...

In a co-ordinated operation involving police in 11 countries, including the United States, the world’s largest online attack-for-hire service, WebStresser.org – behind at least four million cyber ...

Europol officials have shut down WebStresser, a website where users could register and launch DDoS attacks after paying for a monthly plan, with prices starting as low as €15 ($18.25). The website, ...

Site seized: The splash page that has replaced webstresser since the takedown A website blamed for launching more than four million cyber-attacks around the world, including attempts to crash banks in ...

European law enforcement agencies say they've arrested the administrators of a website that allowed users to pay to knock selected websites offline. The site Webstresser.org let paying customers — for ...