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# 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]](#source-1)

[See what happened](#what-happened)

What happened to the people?

Officials reported 3 apprehended.
Group accounted for: Partial

[See people and accountability](#people)

Did it stay down?

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

[See what happened afterward](#afterward)

## What happened

Europol-coordinated wave taking down 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms ahead of the holiday attack season, with arrests in France and Germany.[[1]](#source-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]](#source-1)

- [European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/european-union-agency-for-law-enforcement-cooperation), coordinator

**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.

| Identifier | Recorded as | Status | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Not published | 27 domains | Seized | 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms taken offline.[[1]](#source-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.

## People and accountability

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.

[See the organizations and roles behind this action](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/operation-poweroff-december-2024-wave/organizations)

## What happened afterward

Prosecutions ongoing.[[1]](#source-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](https://takedownindex.org/about).

## Sources

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

### Official sources

1.
[Europol statement on the December 2024 Operation PowerOFF wave](https://takedownindex.org/sources/europol-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.

Coverage note. SUPPORTING-SOURCE GAP. A second participating national authority release should be added.

Research context

## How this entry was checked

This entry went through a dedicated source verification pass. Publisher, title, publication date, and docket numbers were confirmed against each cited source.

Source review: Verified core

Sources cited: 1

Research cutoff: August 20, 2026

Last reviewed August 21, 2026

See also

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