The US Department of Justice confiscated 48 domains and charged six suspects of Booter administrations. In addition, the suspects are accused of using IP stressers against other people’s networks and servers, which is a violation of the law.
Booter, also known as booter services, are DDOS attacks provided on request and offered by enterprising criminals in order to disable websites and networks. In other words, booter is the illegal use of IP addresses.
As special agents of the FBI found out, cybercriminals pay for the services of such services with cryptocurrency.
DDOS-Atak, conducted by a special agent of the FBI from one of the captured domains
And although almost all Booter’s/stressers sits forces the user to accept an agreement that prescribes a ban on the use of services for attacks, the owners of such platforms themselves advertise them in hacker forums.