Sometimes the direct approach is the best. Dutch cybercrime police have a message for almost 30 users of an on-demand distributed-denial-of-service site: “We see what you're doing, now cut it out or we're going to arrest you.” Not for the first time, the move shows police in Europe attempting to move offenders, who are often young men, away from criminality, rather than arresting them outright.
On 11 October 2021, Dutch National Police said they issued a written warning to 29 individual hacker
