Booter services
A service offered by cyber criminals that offers paying customers with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack capabilities on demand. According to this article on eWeek, Booter solutions, or Booters, are "Web-primarily based solutions that do DDoS for employ at extremely low prices and are very difficult to take down.
Booters usually present possible customers with a Internet front end that enables the finish user to specify a Web site that they want the Booter service to target. Detecting and tracing Booters is complex by the reality that the Web service provider (ISP) that the Booter service appears to be hosted from is frequently not where the Booter is really located.
Booter services are often used by script kiddies and are accountable for many of the current DDoS attacks that have received mainstream attention in the news.
How Booter Services Work
The challenge in locating the root source of the Booter service is also to due to the operational complexity of how the Booter functions.
Booter services usually have a Web front end, where the finish user who wants to target a given site is supplied with an interface. James explained that the Web front end is just the control panel, whilst the underlying back end with the hosts that execute the DDoS attack is situated elsewhere.
"So to the underlying ISP that is involved, it doesn't look like anything that is malicious," James stated. "There is no DDoS traffic coming directly from the ISP."
The DDoS traffic comes from a separate infrastructure that consists of data servers all over the world that the Booter solutions connect to via proxies.
