http://www.networkworld.com/article/2449855/security0/bloody-june-what-s-behind-last-month-s-ddos-attacks.html
By Jon Gold Follow
NetworkWorld
July 7, 2014
The list of DDoS attacks in the month of June has made for grim reading.
High-profile sites have been targeted by extortion demands, online games
got disrupted and at least one company was put out of business as a direct
result.
While it’s tempting to look for a single cause at the root of this
apparent tsunami of distributed denial-of-service activity, the reality is
considerably more complex. Online activism, the profit motive and even
potential nation-state activity contributed to June’s high volume of DDoS
attacks.
The only commonality, in fact, may be the ease with which DDoS attacks can
be launched. Experts like Molly Sauter, an academic and author of the
forthcoming book The Coming Swarm, say that the process is childishly
simple.
“Literally, if you have a credit card and if you’re bored, it could be
anyone,” Sauter told Network World. “It’s so easy to rent a botnet – most
of them are out of Russia – and you can rent one for stupid cheap, and
then deploy it for a couple of hours, and that’s really all you need to
target a major site like Feedly or Evernote.”
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