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At this scale it must also cost a ton of money to carry out this attack, I wonder if there's a vulnerability that we don't know about that let them do this so e
by Globz 10y ago
At this scale it must also cost a ton of money to carry out this attack, I wonder if there's a vulnerability that we don't know about that let them do this so easily?
- toomuchtodo 10y ago> At this scale it must also cost a ton of money to carry out this attack It doesn't; you're using compromised machines to initiate the attacks, which is free to you.
- derefr 10y agoYou're almost never using machines you compromised. Instead, you're using someone else's compromised machines: a botnet-backed DDoS-ing service, which you rented on the open (black) market, at the going rate. Bigger attacks still cost more in such setups—whether or not the botnet nodes were free to acquire, the resulting network is still a scarce resource whose price rises with demand. (Of course, in the very special case of Krebs, the people he is reporting on frequently are the owners of the botnets, who can of course use their own botnets freely.)
- kev009 10y agoWell, no, if you are committing crime you can just use illegally pwned computers.