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Why are DDoS attacks a thing? Who spends resources (money?) on running those? What is the incentive?
by TekMol 3y ago
Why are DDoS attacks a thing?
Who spends resources (money?) on running those? What is the incentive?
- senectus1 3y agotypically done via hacked bot farms that cost the attacker nothing other than the fun of rolling out standardized scripted attacks on poorly configured servers. Why they do it... well: Competition suppression Vindictive nastiness Fun Just because you can (the world is your sandbox) Other reasons that might not occur to you but are very real for the attacker...
- bombcar 3y agoDDoS attacks basically are still a thing because there's nobody really incentivized to solve it. The people harmed by them are too small to fix it, and the people big enough make more money selling DDoS mitigation. From what I understand you can avoid many DDoS just by going IPv6 only, because DDoS mainly depends on unpatched shitmachines from the old days.
- vasachi 3y agoIPv6 can help with a small scale attack, but not a large one. Your ISP can still be DDoSed, although it is a bit more difficult to do that.
- mousetree 3y agoWe (fintech bank) were DDoS a few times and sent ransom emails
- seanthemon 3y ago"we'll stop these DDoS attacks if you pay us!" - chris@notcloudflare.com The ol' window manufacturer trick /s
- belter 3y agoThey don't spend that many resources. Most participants in DDoS attacks are sometimes innocently recruited victims. Either victim of their own ignorance or victim of developers lack of care for secure defaults. In other words, some software product is deployed where it should not be...Then....The people and/or AI's who want to run these attacks, explore standard protocol behavior. "Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211" - https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-a...
- maccard 3y ago> Who spends resources (money?) on running those? A raspberry pi can generate enough traffic to overload an otherwise unprotected service. It doesn't cost much, if anything to launch a brute force attack. There's been posts on here about malicious browser extensions, infected IOT devices, malware in mobile apps that give someone the means to launch an utterly brutal attack. Imagine if I had a service that could handle 10k rps. Now imagine 600k android devices from all across the world send one request per second each [0]. [0] https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/mobile-safety/sockbot-malware-found-on-google-play-can-ensnare-devices-to-a-ddos-botnet https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/mobile-saf...
- xwdv 3y agoHN regular conducts DDoS attacks on small weak websites.