International law enforcement has shut down 27 of the most popular platforms used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Europol announced in a statement on 11 December 2024. The operation called PowerOFF, conducted across 15 countries to include the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Finland, which led to the identification of 300 users of these platforms and the arrest of three administrators in France and Germany.
Europol explained that the takedowns were timed ahead
