Comments on: DDoS for hire services offering to ‘take down your competitor’s web sites’ going mainstream

By: DDOS attacks for hire for $5 an hour.. | Secret Code

DDOS attacks for hire for $5 an hour.. | Secret Code — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:50:30 +0000

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By: DDoS for hire | Onoria

DDoS for hire | Onoria — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:23:20 +0000

[...] Dancho Danchev – http://www.blog.webroot.com Thanks to the increasing availability of custom coded DDoS modules within popular malware and [...]

By: Webroot’s Threat Blog Most Popular Posts for 2012 « Webroot Threat Blog – Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:02:36 +0000

[...] DDoS for hire services offering to ‘take down your competitor’s web sites’ going m… – Dislike the competition? Want to directly affect their revenues? It’s never been easier to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against them, thanks to an evident increase in the overall availability of DDoS for hire services. Next to the availability, it’s worth emphasizing on the relatively cheap prices for requesting such types of attacks. Thanks to the penetration pricing schemes introduced by novice cybercriminals who want to achieve financial liquidity for their assets (malware infected hosts), before they lose access to them, one way or another. We expect to see a systematic decrease of these prices, next to an increase in the overall number of unique services offering DDoS for hire services. [...]

By: (English) DDoS for hire | Onoria

(English) DDoS for hire | Onoria — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:29:43 +0000

[...] By Dancho Danchev – http://www.blog.webroot.com [...]

By: New Russian DIY DDoS bot spotted in the wild « Webroot Threat Blog – Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:00:42 +0000

[...] modern DDoS (distributed denial of service) bots inevitably resulted in the rise of the DDoS for hire and DDoS extortion monetization schemes within the cybercrime [...]

By: Cyberciminals launch managed SMS flooding services « Webroot Threat Blog

Cyberciminals launch managed SMS flooding services « Webroot Threat Blog — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:03:01 +0000

[...] to disrupt a competing firm’s mobile communications with its potential clients just like DDoS attacks do, the service also has the capability to assist in a situation where a cybercriminal is about to [...]