In the old days, hackers would just use schemes, all sorts of malware, a lot of them created by themselves or other techies aiming at taking down sites; but nowadays, everything has changed. Now, if they can't crack it with their standard procedures and programs, they simply resort to spending more money on software, computers and other stuff like that, just to get their mission done. Such an example is the recent hack of NameDrive.

Hackers also attacked this website, about 12 days ago, as I recall, infesting a number of their parked domains with Trojan viruses. Thing is the site has great security measures deployed, but is seems that the hackers strived hard to take it down and pumped a lot of money into it. What they did is overflood the site with tens of thousands of false hits per second. And as The Register reports, the attacks on NamdeDrive started Thursday around 15:00 GMT and took the site down but they repaired it and got it back online on Friday.

As I found out while browsing the same site, the aggressor had to spend a lot of money to initiate and sustain these attacks, a possibly 5 or 6 figures sum. But apparently, it was worth it, since they overwhelmed the site's defense. This fact was quite predictable, if you ask me, I mean, I already knew you could buy hacker services online, to make them hit a certain target, so now, if they want their service to get better it's only natural for them to invest more money in "tools" that will make their work a lot easier. And I guess things won't stop here, the hacking market has a lot more to see, so butch up your defenses, install protective software and hope for the best.