Europol operation Tarpit together with FBI arrests 34 users who paid for DDoS attacks
▻https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/joint-international-operation-targets-young-users-of-ddos-cyber-attac
From 5 to 9 December 2016, Europol and law enforcement authorities from Australia, Belgium, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States carried out a coordinated action targeting users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools, leading to 34 arrests and 101 suspects interviewed and cautioned.
▻https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/34-users-who-paid-for-ddos-attacks-arrested-by-police-101-more-que
At the source of Operation Tarpit is Operation Vulcanalia, an older investigation by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), into the activity of a DDoS-for-hire service called Netspoof.
Behind Netspoof was a UK teen, Grant Manser, 20, of Kidderminster, a town near Birmingham, who between January 2012 and November 2014 created and managed #Netspoof and three other DDoS booter services such as #Dejabooter, #Vexstresser, and #Refinedstresser.
It appears that the NCA is now using the data they obtained from Netspoof to go after its users with the help of Europol and other agencies around the world.