After an international investigation, authorities closed the Webstresser website, where more than four million cyber attacks were carried out around the world.
On this site it was possible to buy pirate attacks that were made against pages, including those of some schools or financial entities. In 2017 it was used to attack large British banks, which caused huge economic losses and damages.
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The domain appeared as an offer for companies to "prove their security against computer attacks", and researchers say the band sold the service for about 13 euros. In practice, these attacks, called DDOS, are based on overloading a page by directing a high volume of data traffic to it, causing it to hang and not work. Among the objectives of this type of attacks is industrial espionage and for its solution, it requires a significant amount of effort and money.
The operation was led by the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom (NCA) and the Dutch police and was assisted by Germany and the United States.
Jo Goodall, researcher at the NCA, pointed out that cybercrime is a "threat that crosses borders" and that the response must be based on international collaboration. "These arrests show that the internet does not give an anonymous, bulletproof identity," he said.
