Europeol has announced the disbursing of fare services used to launch thousands of cyber attacks worldwide.
In relation to the operation, Polish authorities have arrested four persons between the ages of 19 to 22 and the United States has seized nine domains which are now associated with the de-deformed platforms.
Europeol said in a statement, “The suspects are believed to be behind six separate stressors/booter services, which enables customers to pay the flood websites and servers with malicious traffic – the at least knocks them as EUR 10.”
CFXAPI, CFXSecurity, Neostress, Jetstress, QuickDown and Zapcut services have played an important role in starting extensive attacks between 2022 and 2025 between 2022 and 2025.
Europeol stated that the platforms offered “Slick user interface”, enabling malicious actors only with any technical expertise with no technical expertise with no technical expertise to make malicious actors entering only one target IP address, selecting the type of attack and paying the fee.
Tension services, usually advertised on underground forums, are often disguised as a valid stress-testing tool, but are designed to disrupt access to web resources to flood fake traffic against a target site to their customers, making them inaccessible to real users.
“Unlike traditional botnets, which require a large number of infected equipment, tensioner/booter services control, which industrially replace the DDOS attacks through centralized, rental infrastructure,” Europeol said.
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Internet Archive, according to Snapshots captured on CFXSecurity, domain hosted on cfxsecurity[.]The bet and “cfxsecurity.cc,” marketed themselves as “#1 Tension Testing Services” and provided this “comprehensive stress test, ensuring that your website and services are ready for any storm.”
Seva offered three schemes, starter for $ 20/month, premium for $ 50/month and enterprise for $ 130/month. QuickDown (“Quickdown[.]Pro “), Similarly, the price of your kit anywhere between $ 20/month to $ 379/month.
Cloud Security Company Redware revealed in a report published in August 2024 that QuickDown is one of a new crop of stress services, which has adopted a hybrid architecture in combination with both botnet and dedicated servers. Quickdown is said to have introduced “new schemes related to Botnett Adon and Botnet Network” in September 2023.
The latest action organized in collaboration with the Dutch and German authorities is part of an ongoing effort called Operation Poweroff aimed to eliminate the infrastructure that facilitates the DDOS-for-Hare activity.
In December 2024, a set of 27 stress services was taken offline, with the announcement of allegations against six separate persons in the Netherlands and the US.
