Law enforcement agencies have arrested 34 users of Netspoof DDoS attack tool and interviewed 101 suspects. Arrested Suspects are mainly teenagers who are suspected of paying for DDoS-for-hire software and using them to launch cyber attacks. The DDoS attacks flooded target websites and web servers with massive amounts of data, leaving those services inaccessible to users. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) head Steven Wilson hopes that the latest arrests would deliver a message to any wannabe hackers.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/12/ddos-attack-tool.html