GENERAL ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMY BEHIND DDoS ATTACKS
Ciprian Andrei Tais · 2006
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are large-scale, coordinated attacks on the availability of services of a victim system or network resource, launched indirectly through many compromised compu- ters on the Internet, forming a massive botnet. DDoS attacks and botnets have become an increasing security concern in today's Internet and cost the economy world-wide billions of dollars. This paper focuses on DDoS attacks, solutions for protection against them, strategies and economical implications that these attacks have and the botnet structures that are being constructed in order to initiate DDoS attacks. We have focused on the economical aspects of botnets, as well as the underground economy that has emerged to support the building, selling and buying of botnet attack tools, an economy that was named botconomics.