{"id":199052,"date":"2024-11-09T05:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ddos-site-dstat-cc-seized-and-two-suspects-arrested-in-germany"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:22:05","slug":"ddos-site-dstat-cc-seized-and-two-suspects-arrested-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ddos-site-dstat-cc-seized-and-two-suspects-arrested-in-germany","title":{"rendered":"DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ddos-site-dstat-cc-seized-and-two-suspects-arrested-in-germany3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/police-cracks-down-on-ddos-for-hire-service-active-since-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation PowerOFF<\/a>,\u201d an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka \u201cbooters\u201d or \u201cstressers,\u201d to seize infrastructure and arrest the operators.<\/p>\n<p>These platforms are responsible for service disruptions to online services and can cause significant economic damages, as well as impact to the operation of critical services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/us-disrupts-anonymous-sudan-ddos-operation-indicts-2-sudanese-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\">such as healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of \u201cOperation PowerOFF,\u201d an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka \u201cbooters\u201d or \u201cstressers,\u201d to seize infrastructure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,1497,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-economics","category-energy","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}