‘Booter Shells’ Turn Web Sites into Weapons
Summary: Hacked web sites are increasingly being retrofitted with 'booter shells,' small backdoor tools that let intruders launch denial-of-service attacks without large networks of infected zombie computers. Prolexic said web servers typically have 1,000+ times the capacity of a workstation, and the absoboot.com service reported more than 450 registered users who had launched some 5,816 DDoS attacks.
Why it matters: A single compromised web server carries roughly 1,000 times a workstation's capacity, so each booter-shelled site a criminal rents out for as little as $15 multiplies attack traffic without the attacker needing a botnet.
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