Stress-Testing the Booter Services, Financially
Summary: Researchers from George Mason University, UC Berkeley's ICSI and the University of Maryland posed as booter buyers for over two months in summer 2014 to identify the PayPal accounts behind nearly two dozen DDoS-for-hire services, and PayPal then limited and froze those accounts. Active booters fell from 70-80 percent to around 50 percent within a day or two and to a low of about 10 percent, while the average lifespan of a booter PayPal account dropped to roughly 3.5 days.
What's compelling: Leaked data from three hacked services - Asylum Stresser, VDO and Lizard Stresser - showed over 6,000 subscribers launching more than 600,000 attacks against over 100,000 distinct victims, and PayPal data indicated over 44% of the associated customer and merchant accounts were potentially owned by someone in the United States.
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