US takes down NightmareStresser DDoS-for-hire platform
FBI seized NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire platform with 566,000 users and servers capable of 200 Gbps attacks, under Operation PowerOFF.
US law enforcement seized the nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org domains used by the DDoS-for-hire service. Searchlight Cyber reported in 2023 that NightmareStresser had over 566,000 registered users and 52 dedicated servers launching attacks of up to 200 Gbps against Layer 4 and Layer 7 targets. The FBI said the service was used for hundreds of thousands of actual or attempted DDoS attacks since 2022. The action continues Operation PowerOFF, which began in December 2018 and previously took down DigitalStress, Dstat.cc and dozens of booter domains.
- Service rented botnets of compromised routers and IoT devices
- December 2022 DOJ takedown seized the .com domain and arrested six suspects
- Operation PowerOFF waves previously seized 60+ booter domains
- Attacks hit schools, government services, businesses and gaming platforms
- Vendors
- Searchlight Cyber
- Products
- NightmareStresser
- Countries
- United StatesPolandUnited Kingdom
Indicators of compromise
auto-extracted · verify before use · export allAll| Type | Indicator | Context |
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| domain | nightmare-stresser.com | attacks targeting online platforms and services. Before the nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org were taken down , the stresse |
| domain | nightmarestresser.com | 22, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) also took down the nightmarestresser[.]com domain and arrested six suspects who allegedly owned mult |
| domain | nightmarestresser.org | forms and services. Before the nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org were taken down , the stresser service described itself a |
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The U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the domains used by NightmareStresser, one of the world's longest-running distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms.
By Sergiu Gatlan · bleepingcomputer.com
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