UK National Crime Agency reveals it ran fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect users’ data

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed on Friday that it had set up a number of fake DDoS-for-hire sites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. It said that users who registered for the sites were not given access to cybercrime tools but instead had their data collated by investigators. DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks are among

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