These are Serbian young men - hackers - half of Europe was searching for them: They managed one of the largest attack services from Ruma (PHOTO)

Two Serbian citizens, Jovan M. (19) from Prokuplje and Vukasin D. (21) from Ruma, were arrested on suspicion that they were administrators of the WEBSTRESSER service. The units from various countries took part in the action that lasted for two days, the national police units for the fight against high-tech crime of the Netherlands, Great Britain (NCA), Croatia, Canada, the United States (FBI), Germany (BKA), Spain, Hong Kong, Scotland, Italy and Australia took part.

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The investigation against this criminal group was started in October 2017 by the Dutch National Criminal Investigative Unit for High-Tech Crime, based on operational information obtained from NCA from the United Kingdom.

The headquarters for the command and coordination of the two-day action was set up at the headquarters of Europol, and action was started in Serbia with the arrest of Jovan and Vukasin.

THE ARRESTS ALL OVER THE WORLD

After that, other administrators and members of this criminal service were arrested in a number of locations around the world, while the police took the servers which were used for various criminal attacks.

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The mentioned server was then shut down and the server infrastructure was confiscated by the police of Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands.

A so-called "STOP page" was placed on the "webstresser.org" site, and there is the coat of arms of Serbian Ministry of Internal affairs and other police that participated in the action.

SERBIAN INTERNET PORTALS WERE SPARED 

Further operational measures have been taken against the users of this criminal market, and the investigation so far has not found evidence that Serbian portals were damaged or that the users from our country were attacked.

"WEBSTRESSER" is thought to be the largest world criminal market for renting of so-called DDoS attacks, with more than 136.000 registered users and with more than four million attacks performed until April this year on the various internet domains around the world. Orchestrated attacks targeted critical online services offered by banks, state institutions and police forces, and the industry of online games, announced from the Ministry of Internal affairs.

Watch the bringing of the hackers to the headquarters of SBPOK in Belgrade: 

(Telegraf.co.uk)