Overview
- In a coordinated push across 21 countries, authorities dismantled infrastructure behind DDoS‑for‑hire services, seized 53 domains, and arrested four suspected operators.
- Investigators accessed seized servers and databases and found data on more than 3 million user accounts linked to the services.
- Using those records, officials sent over 75,000 warning emails and letters to identified users to deter further attacks and flag legal risk.
- Police executed about two dozen search warrants, reported as 24 in some accounts and 25 in others, and worked with search platforms to remove more than 100 URLs that promoted booter sites.
- Agencies are now running deterrent ads aimed at people searching for DDoS tools and posting on‑chain warnings tied to crypto payments, targeting services that let buyers flood targets with junk traffic to knock networks offline.