TY - GEN
T1 - Stress testing the booters
T2 - 25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016
AU - Karami, Mohammad
AU - Park, Youngsam
AU - McCoy, Damon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Science Foundation grant NSF-1237076 and gifts from Google.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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. In this paper, we empirically measure many facets of their technical and payment infrastructure. We also perform an analysis of leaked and scraped data from three major booters| Asylum Stresser, Lizard Stresser and VDO|which provides us with an in-depth view of their customers and victims. Finally, we conduct a large-scale payment intervention in collaboration with PayPal and evaluate its effectiveness as a deterrent to their operations. Based on our analysis, we show that these booters are responsible for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks and identify potentially promising methods to undermine these services by increasing their costs of operation.
AB - 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. In this paper, we empirically measure many facets of their technical and payment infrastructure. We also perform an analysis of leaked and scraped data from three major booters| Asylum Stresser, Lizard Stresser and VDO|which provides us with an in-depth view of their customers and victims. Finally, we conduct a large-scale payment intervention in collaboration with PayPal and evaluate its effectiveness as a deterrent to their operations. Based on our analysis, we show that these booters are responsible for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks and identify potentially promising methods to undermine these services by increasing their costs of operation.
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U2 - 10.1145/2872427.2883004
DO - 10.1145/2872427.2883004
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85032871219
T3 - 25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016
SP - 1033
EP - 1043
BT - 25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016
PB - International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee
Y2 - 11 April 2016 through 15 April 2016
ER -