{"id":2548614,"date":"2023-03-28T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1016567-4521551.cloudwaysapps.com\/plato-data\/cops-use-fake-ddos-services-to-take-aim-at-wannabe-cybercriminals\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:58:35","slug":"cops-use-fake-ddos-services-to-take-aim-at-wannabe-cybercriminals","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/plato-data\/cops-use-fake-ddos-services-to-take-aim-at-wannabe-cybercriminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by<\/span> Naked Security writer<\/a> <\/div><\/div>\n

The UK\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently announced<\/a> work that it\u2019s been doing as an ongoing part of a multinational project dubbed Operation PowerOFF<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The idea seems to be to use fake cybercrime-as-a-service sites to attract the attention of impressionable youngsters who are hanging around on the fringes of cybercrime and looking for an underground community to join and start learning the ropes\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026after which those who attempt to register are \u201ccontacted by the National Crime Agency or police and warned about engaging in cybercrime\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fake crimeware-as-a-service offerings that the NCA pretends to operate are so-called booters, also known as stressers, also known as DDoSsers, where DDoS is short for distributed denial of service<\/em>.<\/p>\n