Europol Shuts Down Six DDoS-for-Hire Services Used in Global Attacks thehackernews.com/2025/05/e…

Europol has announced the takedown of distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services that were used to launch thousands of cyber-attacks across the world. In connection with the operation, Polish authorities have arrested four individuals and the United States has seized nine domains that are associated with the now-defunct platforms.

“The suspects are believed to be behind six separate stresser/booter services that enabled paying customers to flood websites and servers with malicious traffic — knocking them offline for as little as EUR 10,” Europol said in a statement. The services, named cfxapi, cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown and zapcut, are said to have been instrumental in launching widespread attacks on schools, government services, businesses, and gaming platforms between 2022 and 2025.

Europol said the platforms offered “slick user interfaces,” enabling malicious actors with little to no technical expertise to orchestrate DDoS attacks by simply entering a target IP address, choosing the type of attack, and paying a fee. Stresser services, typically advertised on underground forums, are often disguised as legitimate stress-testing tools but are designed to disrupt access to web resources by letting their customers unleash a flood of fake traffic against a target site, making them inaccessible to real users.