Meanwhile:
The NCA, together with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and FBI, today announced the closure of digitalstress.su – a platform responsible for tens of thousands of DDoS attacks every week - and the arrest of its suspected admin.
"This is an old Soviet Union domain which many criminal services use in the belief that it presents a barrier for law enforcement agencies to carry out effective investigations," the NCA said
"On 2 July, a joint operation by the NCA, PSNI, and FBI led to the arrest of a suspected controller of DigitalStress and we have now taken down www.digitalstress.su," said one message sent to the booter's regulars.
"We are watching you. Is it worth it?"
"Our operations continue to demonstrate that criminals online can have no assurance of anonymity or impunity."
splash page shows any visitors to the site that it has been taken over by the cops
The takedown and arrest have come hot off the heels of similar activity in Spain
Spanish police said the NoName057(16) members were also involved in running the DDoSia platform
two operations aren't thought to be connected
As is the fashion nowadays, the takedown came with the tomfoolery and white hat trolling we've come to expect from police in dealing with cybercrime operations.
gotta love this "new" approach law enforcement agencies are doing "trolling" the criminals is genius - you have no idea how badly that'll hurt this type of person 😆 and their operations
Others involved in the booter service confirmed on the operation's Telegram channel that Skiop has been unreachable since July 2. They also warned against accessing the digitalstress[.]net because they believed it was a honeypot
They also confirmed the service's takedown, saying that "without access to his database, we are unable to move [..] clients to another service."
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DigitalStress' takedown and its suspected owner's arrest are part of a long-running and ongoing law enforcement effort known as Operation PowerOFF
which started in December 2018 with the seizure of 15 websites linked to DDoS-as-a-service platforms.