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Operation PowerOFF

Operation PowerOFF December 2024 wave

December 2024, DDoS for hire

Verified core entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

27 platforms taken offline and domains seized.[1]

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What happened to the people?

Officials reported 3 apprehended.
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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Europol-coordinated wave taking down 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms ahead of the holiday attack season, with arrests in France and Germany.[1]

Announced December 11, 2024.

Date
December 1 to December 11, 2024
Target
27 booter and stresser platforms, booter stresser services
Activity
DDoS for hire
Operational lead
Not established
Partners
Europol[1]
Jurisdiction
France, Germany, Netherlands, United States, Poland, and European Union
Outcome
27 platforms taken offline and domains seized.
Status
Completed
Legal mechanism
National judicial process across 15 countries; Europol coordination
Group accounted for
Partial

Infrastructure

27 domains seized.

27
domains seized
Identifier Recorded as Status Notes
Not published 27 domains Seized 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms taken offline.[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

Three arrests across 27 seized platforms leaves most operators unaccounted for.

27 independent services with separate operators.

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Prosecutions ongoing.[1]

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.

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Official sources

  1. [1]
    Europol statement on the December 2024 Operation PowerOFF wave

    Europol, December 11, 2024, Source grade P2

    27 platforms taken down, three arrests

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

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