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by graystevens 2962 days ago
Spot on - they’re often referred to as ‘stressers’ or ‘booters’, and can make a nice chunk of money. There’s always someone looking to knock someone off of Xbox Live or PSN, or even chance it and try to take down a popular website. Depending on the technique used and the size of the botnet, you can cause some sysadmins or SOCs a headache.

I’m sure anyone else in the ISP industry will tell you that anytime kids are off school (summer holidays or half term here in the UK) the DDoS alerts go up a notch or two.
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krageon 2962 days ago
A bit more than two notches I'd say. The correlation between those is pretty enormous.
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kankroc 2962 days ago
It's funny how a small industry is built around this. I remember a few years ago you could pay a monthly fee and they would have tiers and live support.

It wasn't very pricy for small attacks, sometimes even free for anything under 300 seconds.

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