In a nutshell, what these DDoS services are usually selling is access to DDoS botnets: networks of malware-infected computers, which are in turn being “subleased” to subscribers. To understand the business of DDoS-for-hire let’s take a look at what exactly the “product” is. Troels Oerting, head of EU cybercrime center DDoS for hire: Subleasing infected computers “With the increasing number of people on the internet we will see much, much more crime and it will be facilitated by cybercrime-as-a-service producers.” stressers or booters), the barriers to entry for a DDoS attacker has been significantly lowered, offering users the option to anonymously attack any target, for just a few dozen dollars. In recent years, with the emergence of DDoS-for-hire services (a.k.a. Historically, DDoS attacks are associated with hacker and hacktivist groups and often considered to be a work of professional cyber crooks. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, a malicious attempt to make a server or a network resource unavailable to legitimate users, by overloading it with massive amounts of fake traffic.
