A screenshot of the hacking tool site after it was shut down by police Webstresser.org
The internet can rest a little easier. On 24 April, the world’s biggest hacks-for-hire website was shut down and its administrators arrested in a Dutch-led operation involving more than a dozen international law enforcement agencies, including, Europol and the UK National Crime Agency.
The site, webstresser.org, was an online marketplace that hired out sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tools for as little as $18.99 a month. A DDoS attack is a popular technique used to stop websites from working by swamping them with traffic,…
