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What's the motivation for these attacks? How do attackers benefit?
by csense 6y ago
What's the motivation for these attacks? How do attackers benefit?
- deckar01 6y agoI was the target of an email DDoS attack on my gmail account in 2017. I had to propose some motivations in my report. https://imgur.com/ksYbkEv https://imgur.com/ksYbkEv
- bob33212 6y agoTake a site offline then tell the owners that if they pay you 5 bitcoin you'll bring it back. Google wouldn't ever pay but a medium/large retail company may if they are losing 100k/hour in sales
- bluGill 6y agoFor a similar price you can pay ddos defense to a real non-criminal company and like Google ignore their threats. This is a good investment for everyone as it lowers the rewards of crime and thus gets criminals out.
- Nextgrid 6y agoWhat prevents the criminals from either increasing their firepower to the point here DDoS defense providers can't handle, or outright run/be affiliated with those defense providers?
- remus 6y agoIt's hard and expensive controlling enough machines to ddos Google. And Google wouldn't want to work with someone who was ddosing sites for the same reason or doesn't work with the Mafia.
- toast0 6y agoI would regularly see attacks of exactly 300 second duration. I imagine people were kicking the tires on DDoS services for the lolz. Almost always targetting our www servers, rather than anything useful.