Stress Testing the Booters: Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Services

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Mohammad Karami, Youngsam Park, and Damon McCoy

DDoS-for-hire services, also known as booters, have commoditized DDoS attacks and enabled abusive subscribers of these services to cheaply extort, harass and intimidate businesses and people by taking them offline. However, due to the underground nature of these booters, little is known about their underlying technical and business structure.