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In a major strike against the underground economy of commercial cyberattacks, Polish authorities have arrested four individuals suspected of running a network of stresser/booter platforms used to launch thousands of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across the globe. The arrests mark another milestone in Operation PowerOFF, a global law enforcement campaign coordinated by Europol to dismantle DDoS-for-hire services.
According to Europol’s official press release, “the suspects are believed to be behind six separate stresser/booter services that enabled paying customers to flood websites and servers with malicious traffic — knocking them offline for as little as EUR 10.” The dismantled platforms — Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown, and zapcut — had been active between 2022 and 2025, targeting a broad array of victims including schools, government services, businesses, and gaming platforms.
What made these platforms especially dangerous was their ease of use. As Europol noted, “the platforms offered slick interfaces that required no technical skills. Users simply entered a target IP address, selected the type and duration of attack, and paid the fee — automating attacks that could overwhelm even well-defended websites.”
The Polish-led operation was part of a coordinated international effort involving law enforcement authorities from four countries. Europol played a key role in supporting the operation by providing both analytical and operational assistance.
The Netherlands contributed by deploying decoy booter sites — designed to attract and warn potential users of DDoS-for-hire services — while also seizing critical data from data centers hosting such platforms. “Data from booter websites, seized by Dutch law enforcement in data centres in the Netherlands, was shared with international partners, including Poland, contributing to the arrest of the four administrators,” Europol revealed.
Meanwhile, the United States seized nine domains linked to booter services as part of the same week of coordinated action, building on its long-term campaign against illegal DDoS-for-hire platforms.
Germany also played a crucial intelligence role, assisting Polish investigators in identifying one of the suspects and sharing actionable data on others within the network.
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