The cost of having an organization targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for an hour is as low as $10, cybersecurity firm Armor says.
The low cost of launching such attacks results from the proliferation of cybercrime-as-a-service, one of the most profitable business models adopted by cybercriminals over the past years. It allows criminals-wannabe to employ the resources of established cybercriminals for their nefarious purposes, including malware distribution, DDoS-ing, spam, and more.
All that miscreants have to do is to access underground markets or forums and hire the desired cybercrime service to conduct the malicious actions for them. And while the incurred : A Look into the Dark Web (. Considering could be rented for $80 a day, $500 a week or $1,400 a month, Armor has discovered. A botnet capable of webinject and other nefarious actions was available at $750 or $1,200 a month, with support available at an extra $100 or $150 a month.
“When source code is offered, there is a trend toward offloading risk by selling malware or exploit code to someone else and then selling support as well. In the spirit of helping others, some sellers have taken to hawking hacker tutorials and known exploits in bundles at relatively low cost, most likely to low-skill hackers known as script kiddies,” the security firm says.
Armor's researchers found a Microsoft Office exploit builder targeting the and cybercriminals may enjoy their growing wealth without fear."
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