We took a victim perspective to study the potential damage that booter-based DDoS attacks can directly cause to their targets and the collateral damage to Internet infrastructure caused by carrying attack traffic. Self-Attack and DDoS Traffic Observations Since booters are a serious threat to Internet operations and can cause significant financial and reputational damage, they also draw the attention of law enforcement agencies and related counter activities. To understand spatial and temporal trends of the DDoS traffic originating from booters, we scrutinised five months worth of inter-domain traffic.īooter services continue to provide popular DDoS-as-a-service platforms and enable anyone irrespective of their technical ability, to execute DDoS attacks with devastating impact. We investigated and compared attack properties of multiple booter services by launching DDoS attacks against our own infrastructure. In this article, we investigated booter-based DDoS attacks in the wild and the impact of an FBI takedown targeting fifteen booter websites in December 2018.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |