In a co-ordinated international effort, the law enforcement agencies of 15 countries have made the holiday season a little less stressful for companies and consumers – by seizing control of some of the internet’s most popular DDoS-for-hire services. Operation PowerOFF has disrupted what was anticipated to be a surge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the Christmas period by taking over two dozen “booter” or “stresser” websites offline. As Europol explains, every year the festive season is a peak period for cybercriminals to launch DDoS attacks, causing organisations financial…

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