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Europol just took down 27 DDoS-for-hire sites

With the festive period traditionally a time for hackers to mount Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, Europol has moved to preempt them with a sweeping takedown campaign. The agency has seized 27 of the most popular platforms, known as booter and stresser websites, used to carry out these attacks. These include zdstresser.net, orbitalstress.net, and starkstresser.net. Three administrators have been arrested in…