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Sead Fadilpašić

Europol launches Operation PowerOFF — warns 75,000 DDoS users and takes down 53 domains

DDoS inscribed on a digital background made up of numbers.
  • Europol Operation PowerOFF disrupts DDoS‑for‑hire services across 21 countries
  • Four arrests, 53 domains seized, 25 search warrants executed
  • Police found 3 million criminal accounts; 75,000 warning emails sent to deter customers

Four people have been arrested during Operation PowerOFF, a new Europol campaign aimed at disrupting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) service providers.

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