The European Police Agency, Europol, has reported the arrest of 34 adolescents and the interrogation of 101 suspected of using tools to perform denial-of-service attacks (DDoS).
The arrests have been possible thanks to the cooperation of the police of 13 different countries (Australia, Belgium, Spain, United States, France, Holland,Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania and Sweden). Europol is stepping up cooperation between countries to combat cybercrime.
Those arrested are all minors of 20 years, accused of buying and renting applications used to perform DDoS attacks.
DDoS attacks are denial-of-service attacks. Attackers send a high volume of connections to web pages and servers, managing to saturate and disable them.
All participating countries are EMPACT cooperators (European multidisciplinary platform against criminal threats). In Spanish, multidisciplinary European platform against criminal threats, a project to prevent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure in the European Union.
Fountain: Europol