250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action
Summary: Europol says more than 250 customers of the DDoS-for-hire service WebStresser will face legal action, and UK police have seized more than 60 personal electronic devices from users of the service. WebStresser had over 151,000 registered users and was used to launch some four million attacks over three years before investigators in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands took it down in April 2018 and arrested its alleged administrators.
Bottom line: The same authorities who arrested WebStresser's operators are now pursuing the people who paid to use it, and Europol's warning covers every level of user, from a gamer booting a competitor to a high-level hacker running DDoS attacks against commercial targets for financial gain.
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