Digital Hit Men for Hire

Cyber attacks designed to knock Web sites off line happen every day, yet shopping for a virtual hit man to launch one of these assaults has traditionally been a dicey affair. That’s starting to change: Hackers are openly competing to offer services that can take out a rival online business or to settle a score.

There are dozens of underground forums where members advertise their ability to execute debilitating “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attacks for a price. DDoS attack services tend to charge the same prices, and the average rate for taking a Web site offline is surprisingly affordable: about $5 to $10 per hour; $40 to $50 per day; $350-$400 a week; and upwards of $1,200 per month.

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From their ad (translated from Russian):

• 15-30 bots (!!!) knock off line a relatively small site.

• 250-280 bots – the average site.

• 750-800 bots – a large site.

• 2,000-2,500 bots – great site with Anti-DDoS protection

• 4,300-4,700 bots – a cluster of sites, even when using the Anti-DDoS protection, blocking, etc.

• 15-20 thousand bots – take offline virtually any site with any protection.

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