Lizard squad now helping anyone copy its playstation and xbox attacks
At the end of 2014, asert presented research where we mapped some ddos booter advertisements on russian language forums to their behind-the-scenes ddos botnet infrastructures. And after only a month in operation, it now being used as a ddos-for-hire service and being monetized through 0x-booter. Teenagers are behind many of the web attacks that cripple websites and knock people offline, suggests an fbi study. For example, a botnet of 1000 surveillance cameras may be cheaper in terms of organization than a botnet of 100 servers. All the data presented suggests that the average cost of ddos attacks in the near future will continue to drop, while their frequency will increase. Reddit isn't that large of a website, so many different booter services could have been capable of an attack like that. The point of the internet was originally freedom of information, and most of the time that's not what people are using ddos attacks for. This means the actual cost of an attack stre...