Ryan Brunt, Prakhar Pandey and Damon McCoy.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a growing threat that, to a large extent, have become commoditized by DDoS-for-hire, or “booter”, services. In this case study, we analyze leaked fine-grain “ground truth” data from a larger booter service, VDoS, which earned over $597,000 over two years and launched 915,000 DDoS attacks and 48 attack years (i.e., the amount of DDoS time faced by victims of VDoS). The time period of the data includes data before and after a payment intervention, providing a rare opportunity to understand how it impacted VDoS’s operation