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So how is one able to ddos?
11 years ago
I get what a ddos does and how it brings down servers and sites, what I don't get is how someone sets a ddos attack up.
You see while I'm not a complete neanderthal with tech, I am by no means a hacker in any form. What I'm given to understand about hackers, trying to ignore a lot of the romanticised stuff you see on TV, is that being one requires a considerable amount of know-how and more than a little intelligence, and for some things a fair bit of powerful hardware, purchased or even custom made.
This is stuff I don't imagine is readily found in your average butt hurt hater, and yet I've heard of such attacks being done at the behest of such people, so how do they do it? Where do they get the resources? Do they hire someone? And if so how much would that cost them and for how long? Or is ddos so easy to do that a plankton with a keyboard adapter and a bit of money could do it, and so effective that that is why we're seeing it happen more often?
I genuinely want to know, and I post so few journals of any note anyway, if any of my few watchers want to bring people they think would know into this that'd be cool :)
Regards, Ironclad
You see while I'm not a complete neanderthal with tech, I am by no means a hacker in any form. What I'm given to understand about hackers, trying to ignore a lot of the romanticised stuff you see on TV, is that being one requires a considerable amount of know-how and more than a little intelligence, and for some things a fair bit of powerful hardware, purchased or even custom made.
This is stuff I don't imagine is readily found in your average butt hurt hater, and yet I've heard of such attacks being done at the behest of such people, so how do they do it? Where do they get the resources? Do they hire someone? And if so how much would that cost them and for how long? Or is ddos so easy to do that a plankton with a keyboard adapter and a bit of money could do it, and so effective that that is why we're seeing it happen more often?
I genuinely want to know, and I post so few journals of any note anyway, if any of my few watchers want to bring people they think would know into this that'd be cool :)
Regards, Ironclad
There are criminals who set up botnets (via malware), then sell/rent them to other people. So, someone who wants to take down a website only needs money rather than any technical knowledge: it's pretty much a point and click job, where you stick in the address of the target server. The cost varies depending on the number of machines and their bandwidth, and also how long you want the attack to last for. Looking at the recent update from this website, it would take a lot of machines to overwhelm a 10 Gbit/sec link, so that would probably be quite expensive (although stolen credit cards would reduce the cost).
If you do a Google search for "hire botnet" then you can find more info about it. E.g.
* https://www.damballa.com/want-to-re.....k-ddos-botnet/ ("A fairly typical rate for DDoS botnet rental hovers around the $200 for 10,000 bot agents per day.")
* http://www.webroot.com/blog/2012/06.....ng-mainstream/ ($5 for an hour, $40 for 24 hours)
* http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/20.....y-one-for-700/ ($2 for an hour, $700 to buy the entire network)