Dutch police help take down gang offering DDoS cyberattacks as a service

An international group of criminals that committed thousands of digital attacks for money has been caught. Four of the suspected leaders of the group were arrested in Poland. The group was found with the help of Dutch detectives, Europol reported.

The suspects ran six so-called stresser/booter services. The services were called Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown, and zapcut. Clients did not need to have any kind of technological knowledge; they only needed to tell the group the IP address of the target and how long they wanted the DDoS attack to last.

After the group was paid, the targeted system was then overwhelmed with data attacks, which eventually led to the site having to shut down. A fee of 10 euros was enough for the group to commit a small attack. Companies, gaming sites, governments, and schools were hit by the attacks between 2022 and 2025.

The Netherlands has taken over this type of booter platform in the past. This resulted in detectives gathering information about the users of the services, and this was the information that helped the Polish authorities track down the four suspects.

The Dutch police also used a fake website that looked a site to order DDoS attacks. Users were led to these sites via Google advertisements. They were then given a warning when they tried to order an attack.

During an international week against booter platforms, the United States took down nine domain names.

“Carrying out a DDoS attack is punishable by law and can cause a lot of damage. The police do not rule out such actions in the future,” a statement from the Dutch police read.