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(Photo by Yuriko Nakao\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"25.10966469428\"><body readability=\"52.5\"><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Poland have arrested four people accused of administrating and selling access to distributed denial of service (DDoS) services, according to a press release from Europol. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects are believed to have operated six so-called \u201cstresser\u201d or \u201cbooter\u201d services that enabled customers across the world to launch thousands of attacks on targets ranging from government offices to businesses and schools. From 2022 to 2025, the platforms \u2014 identified as Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown, and zapcut \u2014 allegedly allowed users to bombard websites and servers with high volumes of junk traffic, often rendering them inaccessible. <\/p>\n<p>The services, which offered easy-to-navigate interfaces, required minimal user knowledge: attackers could select a target, choose the attack specifications, and pay as little as 10 euros for each disruption, according to Europol.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests in Poland were part of a coordinated law enforcement response spanning four countries and supported by Europol. In addition to the Central Cybercrime Bureau in Poland, the investigation was supported by German Federal Criminal Police Office, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office in Frankfurt, the Dutch National Police, and multiple U.S. agencies, including the Department of Justice, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS). <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Additionally, U.S. authorities seized nine domain names linked to similar DDoS-for-hire operations. <\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s operation was run in concert with <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/international-crackdown-disrupts-ddos-for-hire-operations\/\">Operation PowerOFF<\/a>, which since 2018 has targeted the infrastructure underpinning DDoS-for-hire markets. Most recently, in December, the operation led to 27 major DDoS attack platforms being seized, resulting in the arrest of three administrators in France and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the individuals taken into custody this week were not released.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.6733226837061\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"14\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/six-ddos-sites-seized-in-multi-national-law-enforcement-operation-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Greg Otto\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Greg Otto<\/h4>\n<p> Greg Otto is Editor-in-Chief of CyberScoop, overseeing all editorial content for the website. 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