Police take down the world’s largest DDoS-for-hire service

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/police-down-world-apos-largest-043200031.html

A combined contingent of law enforcement officials from the US, UK and Netherlands has shut down what was once deemed as the worlds largest contract DDoS service.  The article describes how, for as little as $15, someone could order up a massive bot swarm to successfully attack almost any website by flooding it with useless traffic using a Distributed Denial of Service  tool called ‘WebStresser’.  The arrests were not just restricted to the US, UK and Netherlands – they included individuals from around the world from as far away as Australia.