A Turkish hacking crew is luring participants to join its DDoS platform to compete with peers to earn redeemable points that are exchangeable for hacking tools and click-fraud software. The goal, security researchers say, is to gamify DDoS attacks in order to attract a critical mass of hackers working toward a unified goal. The platform is called Surface Defense and is being promoted in Turkish-language Dark Web forums. Targets include the Kurdistan Workers Party, German Christian Democratic Party and the Armenian National Institute website.
Source: https://threatpost.com/hackers-gamify-ddos-attacks-with-collaborative-platform/122290/