Hi. I run a thing that uses a lot of bandwidth. Repeat after me: I can not safely use usage-based pricing clouds like AWS and GCS until they get serious about the DDoS problem. I can not safely use usage-based pricing clouds like AWS and GCS until they get serious about the DDoS problem. I can not safely use usage-based pricing clouds like AWS and GCS until they get serious about the DDoS problem. I've brought this u…
Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
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Re: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
#12Hi. I run a thing that uses a lot of bandwidth. Repeat after me: I can not safely use usage-based pricing clouds like AWS and GCS until they get serious about the DDoS problem. I can not safely use usage-based pricing clouds like AWS and GCS until they get serious about the DDoS problem. I can not safely use usage-based pricing clouds like AWS and GCS until they get serious about the DDoS problem. I've brought this u…
Re: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
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#14Under $100 for a large-scale DDOS attack is ridiculously cheap. It's no wonder these are getting freakishly common. Does anyone have a best-practices for dealing with the more modern variants?
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#15Under $100 for a large-scale DDOS attack is ridiculously cheap. It's no wonder these are getting freakishly common. Does anyone have a best-practices for dealing with the more modern variants?
Use service like cloudflare, it's 250 dollars and you are UDP attacks completely free + a lot of TCP ones.
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#16Dennis you left the name of the Russian DDoS site in one of your images...you may want to consider cropping this.
>ASERT keeps tabs on DDoS botnets and their attack activity with our BladeRunner botnet monitoring system and kypitest[.]ru is no exception.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use service like cloudflare, it's 250 dollars and you are UDP attacks completely free + a lot of TCP ones.
CloudFlare protection can be easily bypassed. These types of proxy services which offer decently cheap DDoS protection are fine for defending against small-time attacks, however, plenty of attackers have scripts capable of bypassing them.
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#19This problem exists mainly because the most used os doesn't have a package manager/app store or a secure and safe way to install software and it still doesn't because there is a huge av/security industry built to solve the problem it creates.
Re: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
#20This problem exists mainly because the most used os doesn't have a package manager/app store or a secure and safe way to install software and it still doesn't because there is a huge av/security industry built to solve the problem it creates.