Digital Hit Men for Hire
Summary: Dozens of underground forums now host advertisements for distributed denial-of-service attack services, with average rates of about $5 to $10 per hour, $40 to $50 per day, $350 to $400 per week, and upwards of $1,200 per month to take a Web site offline. One service claims 1,500 to 5,000 bots, while the Darkness DDoS kit's own ad states that 15,000 to 20,000 bots can take offline virtually any site with any protection.
Key Takeaway: At roughly $5 an hour, a competitor or a grudge-holder can rent an outage for less than the cost of lunch, and the Darkness ad's own figures put any protected site within reach of a 15,000-to-20,000-bot army.
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