Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push

The Europol-coordinated Operation PowerOFF struck again this week as cross-border cops pulled the plug on 27 more domains tied to distributed denial of service (DDoS) criminality. Europol stated on Wednesday that the booter and stressor services shut down by law enforcement were among the most popular in use by hacktivists and …

[Doctor Syntax]

"An ad a day to keep cybercrime at bay" is what Europol said in its announcement, saying it too will be paying for Google Search and YouTube ads to deter young people from using these sites.

For that to work they're going to have to have a convincing story to tell. A handful of arrests of the operators of the sites isn't going to provide that.

[Pascal Monett]

Probably not, it'll just favor the competition.

I'm sure there is some of that.

[Anonymous Coward]

DoS to advertising

Hmm, I'm sure internet advertising warnings will definitely work, because absolutely no wannabe haxx0r isn't going to have at least one form of adblocking enabled on their setup…

[Camilla Smythe]

Why not...

Crack down on the port scanning scum like Shodan?

[Anonymous Coward]

Good to see hard-nose tactics are being deployed

"over 2,000 emails will be used to reach users of illegal services," said Europol."