Key members of a suspected cyber criminal gang specialising in distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion have been arrested following a joint operation by police forces across Europe.
Law enforcement agencies from the UK, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Germany were all involved in the operation, dubbed Operation Pleiades, against cyber-crime group DD4BC (Distributed Denial of Service for Bitcoin).
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2441656/key-members-of-ddos-bitcoin-extortion-gang-arrested-following-europol-operation
