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Operation PowerOFF

Operation PowerOFF December 2022 wave

December 2022, DDoS for hire
Led by Federal Bureau of Investigation

Verified core entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

48 domains seized and redirected to seizure notices.[1][2]

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What happened to the people?

Officials reported 6 charged.
Group accounted for: Partial

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Did it stay down?

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

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FBI-led seizure of 48 DDoS-for-hire domains with charges against six US-based defendants, coordinated with UK and Dutch partners.[1][2]

Announced December 14, 2022.

Date
December 13 to December 14, 2022
Target
48 booter and stresser services, booter stresser services
Activity
DDoS for hire
Operational lead
FBI
Partners
Europol, USAO-CDCA[1][2]
Jurisdiction
United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Poland
Outcome
48 domains seized and redirected to seizure notices.
Status
Completed
Legal mechanism
US seizure warrants and criminal complaints (Central District of California and District of Alaska); Europol coordination
Group accounted for
Partial

Infrastructure

48 domains seized.

48
domains seized
Identifier Recorded as Status Notes
Not published 48 domains Seized, United States 48 booter and stresser domains seized and redirected to seizure notices.[1]

Domains and onion addresses are shown defanged. Where the record gives a count but no identifier, the count is shown in place of one. This list carries only what appears in the cited sources.

No individual is named against this entry in the cited record. That is a gap in what has been published rather than a finding that nobody was involved.

Group accounted for: Partial

Six defendants were charged against 48 seized services, so most operators were not publicly accounted for.

48 independent services with separate operators.

See the organizations and roles behind this action

Multiple defendants pleaded guilty in subsequent years.[1][2]

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

Return class E. The class is a research grading carried in the source dataset and its scale is not published, so this page relies on the relationship and confidence values instead. How this index handles it.

Numbered markers throughout this entry link to the source that supports the claim beside them.

Official sources

  1. [1]
    Federal Prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alaska Charge 6 Defendants with Operating Websites that Offer Computer Attack Services

    United States Department of Justice, December 14, 2022, Source grade P1

    48 domain seizures and six defendants charged

    No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

  2. [2]
    Europol statement on the December 2022 Operation PowerOFF wave

    Europol, December 14, 2022, Source grade P2

    International coordination

    No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

Coverage note. Named defendants were published by DOJ but are not carried as person records in this pass. Documented named-person gap.