German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘Fly Hosting’
Summary: German authorities served eight search warrants on March 30 and identified five individuals aged 16-24 suspected of operating an internet service since mid-2021, seizing servers in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands along with phones, laptops, tablets, storage media and handwritten notes. Hesse Police confirmed to KrebsOnSecurity that the seizures were executed against FlyHosting, a Germany-based hosting service that first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022 as open to anyone hosting malware, botnet controllers or DDoS-for-hire infrastructure.
Key Takeaway: The same service the suspects allegedly ran since mid-2021 was used to overload the websites of various companies and of the Hesse police itself, and the raiders now hold the payment logs and IP addresses of FlyHosting's customers.
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