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DDoS Evolution of DIY tools in the underground

Underground offer is plenty of interesting software and services that could be acquired at reasonable prices. New actors try to conquer the black market with ingenious proposition on black market. The principal ways to monetize a DDoS attack observed are: Conduct DDoS for extortion purposes. The IRC-based DDoS bot was very light, just 23kb that has standard anti-debugging mechanisms built-in, plus features allowing the update the code to a newer version. According to Danchev the IRC version is sold for $100 while the HTTP version goes for $300.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/14114/cyber-crime/ddos-evolution-of-diy-tools-in-the-underground.html

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