Stresser

Not to be confused with Stressor.

Stresser (or booter) services provide denial-of-service attack as a service, usually as a criminal enterprise.[1]

They have simple front ends, and accept payment over the web. Marketed and promoted as stress-testing tools, they can be used to perform unauthorized denial-of-service attacks, and allow technically unsophisticated attackers access to sophisticated attack tools.[2] Usually powered by a botnet, the traffic produced by a consumer stresser can range anywhere from 5-50 Gbit/s, which can, in most cases, deny the average home user internet access.[3]

Targets of booter/stresser services include network gaming services.[2][4] Motivations for the use of stresser services include revenge, extortion, and simple mischief.

  1. ^ "The FBI and International Law Enforcement Partners Intensify Efforts to Combat Illegal DDoS Attacks". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  2. ^ a b Krebs, Brian (August 15, 2015). "Stress-Testing the Booter Services, Financially". Krebs on Security. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  3. ^ Mubarakali, Azath; Srinivasan, Karthik; Mukhalid, Reham; Jaganathan, Subash C. B.; Marina, Ninoslav (2020-01-26). "Security challenges in internet of things: Distributed denial of service attack detection using support vector machine-based expert systems". Computational Intelligence. 36 (4): 1580–1592. doi:10.1111/coin.12293. ISSN 0824-7935. S2CID 214114645.
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