Thus, if the attack aims individuals, the hacker or hackers can be sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment and a fine of 150 000 euros. According to the French law, a cyberattack is a criminal offence and the penalties are severe. The shutdown of also led to a wave of arrests in many countries like Scotland, Croatia and Serbia. Now, its operators can’t access it anymore and a message left by the American Ministry of Defense serves as the home page. To carry out this large scale operation, five countries, Croatia, Scotland, Canada, Netherlands and Serbia have combined their best policemen to lend a hand to Europol.Īlthough this is an operation of international concern, the German, Dutch and American authorities were in charge of closing the website definitely. Among its victims, there are many British banks. Many countries hand in hand to dismantle the networkĪccording to the National Crime Agency’s research, has been used by hackers for the launching of almost 4 million attacks around the world. The operating mode is to saturate queries servers so the websites hosted on these same servers cannot operate for web users anymore. This shutdown has been possible thanks to Europol’s active intervention.įor reminder, a DDoS is a cyberattack. The good news just arrived,, one of the websites most responsible of million DDoS attacks has been dismantled.
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