Website linked to cyber-attacks against UK banks is shut down
by Jamie Grierson from Technology | The Guardian on (#3NMD7)
Webstresser.org, which had 136,000 users, could be rented for 10 to launch DDoS attacks
A website linked to more than 4m cyber-attacks worldwide, including against some of Britain's biggest banks, has been shut down following a UK- and Netherlands-led operation.
Webstresser.org had 136,000 registered users and could be rented for about 10 to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in which high volumes of internet traffic are launched at target computers to disable them.
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