The U.S. § 853, as part of a joint international law enforcement operation involving the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Anchorage Field Office, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)." These so-called booter services are often marketed as stress testing tools but have been employed to aid a wide array of attacks against various victims in the U.S. No vanishing acts. Just raw, consistent dominance day and night."

In addition, NightmareStresser enabled customers to pay with cryptocurrencies and featured an advanced referral system that allowed users to earn credits when their referral link was used by another party to visit the website, irrespective of whether any purchases were made immediately or later.

Simply press the button when you need it." The takedown is part of a long-running effort called Operation PowerOFF, a coordinated law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures globally. Earlier this April, a similar operation led to the disruption of 53 domains and the arrest of four people in connection with various commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services used by over 75,000 cybercriminals.

"The multi-prong investigation announced today builds on the success of the prior cases by targeting all known booter sites, shutting down as many as possible, and undertaking a public education campaign," the DoJ said.