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Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks-For-Hire Website Shut Down

European law enforcement agencies say they've arrested administrators and shut down a marketplace that allowed customers to pay to stage attacks and knock websites offline.
Europol said law enforcement agencies arrested the administrators of a website that allowed customers to launch DDoS attacks.

European law enforcement agencies say they've arrested the administrators of a website that allowed users to pay to knock selected websites offline.

The site Webstresser.org let paying customers — for as little as 15 euros a month, according to the European law enforcement agency Europol — launch

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