Police officers of the Bydgoszcz Department of the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime, in cooperation with the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bydgoszcz have detained two people involved in the production and sharing of a paid service for carrying out DDoS attacks
The service run by the criminals has been operating since 2013 and was successfully blocked as part of the international “Power Off” operation. The activities were carried out in close cooperation with Europol, the US FBI, the police of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium and were coordinated by the J-CAT (Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce).
Equipment & monies seized
During the raids, data was obtained from the perpetrators’ server located in Switzerland which identified more than 35,000 user accounts, 76,000. log-in records, and over 320,000 unique IP addresses.
In addition to the above, 11,000 records of purchased “plans of attacks” were recovered along with the email address of the buyers of the service.
A printout of a cryptocurrency wallet with a private key containing 1 BTC and 1 BCH worth over PLN 114,000 was seized as well as zlotys and other currencies in the amount of over 145 thousand zloty.
The total amount of secured property is almost PLN 260,000 zlotys.
Charges levied
Evidence of running and administering a criminal domain was revealed and secured on the computer of one of the suspects, and charges have been filed against two persons under the Polish penal code – Acts against the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Computer, Data and Systems – Art. 269b § 1 PC.
In addition to the data and monies recovered, electronic equipment was secured in the form of :
- 15 hard drives
- 5 desktop computers
- 6 portable computers
- 10 telephones
- 5 USB sticks
- 3 SIM cards
The Polish police have released a short video showing some of the raids being conducted.