News report

# 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

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**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/](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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## Cited by

### Takedown records

1 citation

Cited on the takedown record itself.

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[Operation PowerOFF December 2024 wave](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/operation-poweroff-december-2024-wave)

DDoS for hire, Date not established

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