It is a lot cheaper then that... here is an old article of the first botnet herder going public on how it is done, and at $15.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/05/19/i-run-a-small-botnet-and-sell-stolen-information-ask-me-anything/ On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Gary Garrett <ggarr...@nidaho.net> wrote: > We got hit by this. Real Bummer. 4,000 connections pounding ports 123 > and 19 on one IP address. 30 meg sustained and 70 - 80 meg peaks. Took > down the entire 100 meg fiber due to the massive packets per second. > It is still ongoing but our upstream had to block it at the edge and is > still eating the bandwidth. You can not block it yourself so get help right > away. > > Why us? I think a gamer on our network pissed off some hacker in a chat > room who had access to a botnet. > You can rent a botnet for $200 a day if you can prove you are not the FBI. > > Gary > > > > > On 1/17/2014 7:24 AM, Joe Miller wrote: > > We had a network outage yesterday afternoon, and thanks to Mike Francis > at JMF Solutions the problem went away. So, anyone who needs network help…I > would strongly recommend Mike Francis at JMF Solutions. > > > > Kudos to Mike Francis. > > > > http://threatpost.com/us-cert-warns-of-ntp-amplification-attacks/103573 > > > > Joe Miller > > www.dslbyair.com > > 228-831-8881 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing > listWireless@wispa.orghttp://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- -- SCS Clay Stewart CEO, Tye River Farms, Inc., DBA Stewart Computer Services 434.263.6363 O 434.942.6510 C cstew...@stewartcomputerservices.com “We Keep You Up and Running” Wireless Broadband Programming Network Services
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