'In the past week, 15 booters have been blacked out at the request of the police. 'In addition to tackling people who carry out DDoS attacks, we also focus on tackling the booter websites,' the Dutch police adds. Dutch police took down 15 booters in a week 'Especially in these times where many emergency ordinances and other emergency regulations are made accessible through this site, it is critical to keep this site accessible to citizens,' the press release reads. “By taking a website like this offline, you are denying citizens access to their personal data and important government information,' Niessen added. The other one,, is a platform that makes it possible to receive digital mail from the Dutch government like tax assessments, child benefits info, or notifications to renew one's passport. One of the attacked government websites is, a guide to services and information from all government organizations in the Netherlands frequently visited by Dutch citizens because of the COVID-19 outbreak. ' We want to protect people and companies and make it increasingly difficult for cyber criminals to carry out a DDoS attack.'

'We take this very high, especially now that the corona crisis is causing additional uncertainty and a great need for information by many people,' said Central Netherlands Police cybercrime team member Jeroen Niessen. The investigation was led by a public prosecutor from The Hague and was carried out by a cybercrime team from Utrecht's Dutch police focused on mitigating and examining DDoS attacks.ack.' Sites used to disseminate emergency information A 19-year old man from Breda, Netherlands, was arrested today for allegedly carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that caused two Dutch government websites to shut down for several hours on March 19, 2020.

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