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Today's topics include the justice department shutting down 15 ddos-for-hire sites, and microsoft adding an extension pack on visual studio. In a distributed denial-of-service attack (ddos attack), the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. Ddosaas works as a series of botnets to perform the attacks which makes it nearly impossible to track back to its origination. The above screenshot shows the uptime of the 0-x booter, bushido botnet and deucalion botnet which states that site and the deculion botnet has been active from 12th december continuously but bushido botnet seems down in earlier days but now it has been up.
By contrast, ddos for hire services are bought as an off-the-shelf product and launched and managed by the individual. Crooks can power ddos attacks for extortion , ransomware ddos have already turned into a high-margin business, experts at kaspersky explained that the profitability of one attack can exceed 95%. Is believed to have been the world's stresser marketplace to hire ddos services, having helped launched over 4 million attacks for as little as € 15.00 a month.
Ddos attacks are illegal and, subsequently subletting access to malware-infected computers is illegal as well. The asking prices for the services we managed to find were, on average, $25 per hour, meaning the cybercriminals organizing ddos attack are making a profit of about $18 for every hour of an attack.” reads the analysis published by kaspersky.
To this effect, the fbi seized last december 15 other ddos-for-hire websites, including the relatively well known downthem and quantum stresser. On the flip side, some botnet owners prefer to call a spade a spade, and offer booter” or ddoser” services. Open-source testing provides you with the code to run your own attack, whereas ddos for hire sites launch it for you for as little as £11.
Uk police are also conducting a number of live operations against other ddos criminals; over 250 users of and other ddos services will soon face action for the damage they have caused. The two parties are in constant communication for the full attack time, typically 90 minutes, and provide mid-attack analysis to keep the target updated.