DDoS Services Advertise Openly, Take PayPal
Summary: Krebs on Security reported that booter and stresser services are now openly advertised by U.S. operators who hide behind disclaimers and take payment through PayPal, with one service, asylumstresser.com, logging more than 10,000 attacks in the week of March 17 to March 23, 2013. The leaked database for that site showed over 33,000 user accounts and more than $35,000 in PayPal payments to the address tied to its administrator, while researcher Allison Nixon found the service ran only reflected DNS attacks and UDP floods regardless of the method selected.
Bottom line: A single booter took in more than $35,000 through PayPal and ran over 10,000 attacks in one week, mostly against online gaming servers, while its frontend sat behind Cloudflare on Romanian bulletproof hosting at Voxility. The operator's defense was that victims could block the traffic with basic networking knowledge, which is the same argument any target will hear after an attack.
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