14 DAY TRIAL // Some while ago we saw that cybercriminals were advertising distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on YouTube with videos in which attractive young women were describing the organization’s products. The marketing strategy deployed by the company seems to be working since they have recently released a new clip.
In this one, the spokeswoman is changed, but she still promotes the same services that can apparently be used by anyone to take out the website of a rival or an enemy.
“We have been running this service on hack forums for months. We DDOS huge company websites, to small personal websites, to private game servers. Our prices are based on how huge or protected the website or serve is,” she says.
“We are open to long or short term jobs, as we are capable of handling the job for days, weeks and months. To ensure quality service we will give you a 5 minute demo for serious buyers or clients, before accepting your payment.”
Speaking to SC Magazine, owners of the DDOS service have revealed that each day a number of “huge” companies hire them to launch attacks against their rivals.
In the videos he has uploaded on YouTube since the service was launched, the mastermind of the operation bragged about how much money he made with the help of his private HTTP botnet that was capable of taking out most webservers with UDP and Syn floods.
He even made a demonstration which targeted a security solutions provider from Europe.
In a threat advisory released on April 25, Prolexic, a company that specializes in fending off DDOS attacks, revealed that nowadays hackers could use booter shells that allowed them to initiate devastating operations that didn’t require large botnets.
“For hackers, DDoS attacks have never been easier to launch, while for their victims, the power and complexity of attacks is at an all-time high. The threat of a DDoS attack has never been more likely or its potential impact more severe. We’ve entered the age of DDoS-as-a-Service,” explained Neal Quinn, chief operating officer at Prolexic.