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Operation PowerOFF shuts down 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms

BleepingComputer, December 11, 2024. The 11 December 2024 announcement of the PowerOFF wave: 27 booter platforms taken offline and three administrators arrested. The article gives no separate operation start date..

Source type
News report
Published
December 11, 2024
Research grade
S1
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Publisher
BleepingComputer
Published
December 11, 2024
Source type
News report
Research grade
Source grade S1
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/operation-poweroff-shuts-down-27-ddos-for-hire-platforms/
What it supports
The 11 December 2024 announcement of the PowerOFF wave: 27 booter platforms taken offline and three administrators arrested. The article gives no separate operation start date.
Dataset id
src_bleepingcomputer_poweroff_27_platforms_2024

Research notes

  • By Bill Toulas.
  • Relevant negatively: it supplies an announcement date only, so it cannot be used to set started_on.

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