Many booter services advertise themselves as legitimate testing services for customers to test their own website’s ability to withstand an attack.

An average DDoS attack costs a business between $200 and $1,000 each day, he told the site. These types of attacks make $13 million in revenue each year, the security company Bromium’s CEO Gregory Webb told the website Threatpost. “Attacks-for-hire” are leading to an increase in the frequency of attacks, experts say.

21, 2016, when an attack caused disruptions to Twitter, Amazon, Spotify and Airbnb for much of the day. One of the most widely felt DDoS attacks occurred on Oct. With, any registered user could pay a nominal fee using online payment systems or cryptocurrencies to rent out the use of stressers and booters.” “It used to be that in order to launch a DDoS attack, one had to be pretty well versed in internet technology,” Europol said. Webstresser provided what was a called a “booter” or “stresser” service - what security researcher Brian Krebs calls “virtual hired muscle that anyone can rent to knock nearly any website or Internet user offline.” A DDoS attack works by overwhelming an online service with fake traffic from various sources. Victims are out of business for a period of time, and spend money on mitigation and on (other) security measures,” the Dutch police said. “The damage of these attacks is substantial. Law enforcement alleges the site had 136,000 registered users and was responsible for 4 million attacks as of this month. saw a notice: “THIS SITE HAS BEEN SEIZED.” Europol said Webstresser’s servers were “seized” in the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands. Dutch police and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency led the investigation, dubbed “Operation Power Off.” At least 10 people were arrested, the Dutch National Police said on Reddit Wednesday.

The site let paying customers - for as little as 15 euros a month, according to the European law enforcement agency Europol - launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to shut down websites or Internet users.Īuthorities arrested the alleged administrators in the U.K., Croatia, Canada and Serbia on Tuesday, Europol said in a statement.

European law enforcement agencies say they’ve arrested the administrators of a website that allowed users to pay to knock selected websites offline.

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