“The Empire ddos for rent is exposed.” Thus, Europol announced this last blow on Wednesday, May 7, its last blow to an important criminal market regarding the attacks by denial of the service. This type of attack aims to flood servers with multiple applications to saturate them and cause a breakdown.
Six platforms, namely, CFXAPI, CFXSecury, Neostress, Jetstress, Quickdown and Zapcut, proposed to rent ddos services “for a sum as modest as 10 euros,” said the European Police agency in its press release.
It is suspected that these platforms, which have now disappeared, have facilitated generalized attacks on schools, government services, companies and game platforms between 2022 and 2025, he said. They would have used to launch “thousands of cyber attacks worldwide.”
Four people arrested
More specifically, the six platforms rent “stressful/starting services. The latter “offers cyber attacks on request, often disguised as tools for legitimate tests, but widely used to cause deliberate disturbances,” explains Europol.
With these services, users can make a website or server inaccessible flooding huge volumes of false traffic. Customers were able to rent them and, therefore, launch cyber attacks without any technical ability. It was enough to enter an objective IP address, select the type and duration of the attack, then pay the costs.
Four suspicious people to lead this platform network were arrested by the Polish authorities, said Europol. These arrests are part of an international coordinated action, in which the German, Dutch and American authorities participated, in addition to Poland. Called Poweroff, its goal is to suffocate the infrastructure behind the attacks by denial of the service.
Source: BFM TV
