Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Booter Services

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2016

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Karami, Mohammad Karami

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a commoditized service operated by profit-motivated adversaries. While having control over a large number of compromised hosts was traditionally required for an adversary to be able to launch successful DDoS attacks, the emergence of DDoS as a service phenomenon in recent years has made DDoS infrastructure conveniently accessible to a wide range of malicious actors for a minimal cost. This in turn has contributed to the proliferation of DDoS attacks in recent years.

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Information technology, Computer science, Amplification Attacks, Booter, DDoS, Empirical Security, Payment Inervention

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