U.S. officials say they have seized dozens of domains linked to some of the world’s leading distributed denial-of-service sites for-hire websites. But TechCrunch found that several of the seized sites are still active.
In a press release on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the takedown of 48 domains associated with some of the world’s most popular DDoS booter platforms, according to the corresponding warrant. These services, often marketed as sites for bandwidth stress-testing networks, allow low-skilled individuals to carry out DDoS attacks designed to overwhelm websites and networks and force them offline.
The takedowns were carried out as part of a joint operation between the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, Dutch police, and Europol, known as “Operation PowerOFF.”
The DOJ said these booter sites were involved...
