Weekly Threat Report 16th December 2016

Successful take-down of DDoS for hire service

Recent joint international law enforcement operations have resulted in the arrests of 34 suspected users of for-hire Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack services. Twelve of the arrests were made in the UK, following a National Crime Agency (NCA)-led operation. The operation targeted Netspoof, an organisation which offered stresser packages to disable web servers and websites by flooding them with enormous volumes of internet traffic….

Link: Weekly Threat Report 16th December 2016
Source: NCSC Reports