Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently announced work that it’s been doing as an ongoing part of a multinational project dubbed Operation PowerOFF. 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… …after which those who attempt to register are “contacted by the National Crime Agency or police and warned about engaging in cybercrime”.

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