Crime agency turns to Google ads to deter teen DDoS hackers

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit on what looks like a simple way to stop impressionable teens from being sucked into cybercrime – advertise the terrible legal consequences using Google Ads. Spotted earlier in the month by security blogger Brian Krebs, during May anyone searching for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) ‘stresser’ and ‘booter’ would have found it hard to miss the ads, one of which apparently ran the following blunt warning at the top of search results:

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