Europol's Operation PowerOFF Targets DDoS-for-Hire Services, Leads to Arrests and Seizures

📌 Operation PowerOFF, a Europol-led crackdown on DDoS-for-hire services, identified and warned 75,000 users of such platforms. The operation resulted in the arrest of four individuals and the seizure of 53 domains linked to these illicit services. The initiative targeted cybercriminals offering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as a paid service. No specific dates or technical details, such as CVE IDs, were disclosed in the report. The impact included disrupting infrastructure used to launch DDoS attacks and notifying users of potential legal consequences.