DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled WebStresser was one of many so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — virtual hired muscle that anyone can rent to knock nearly any website or Internet user offline. Using stresser/booter services is illegal. Nevertheless, Europol said Webstresser.org boasted 136,000 registered users and had been used to launch more than 4 million attacks against websites - ranging from banks and government agencies to police forces and gaming sites. But the site's dominance as the world's biggest stresser/booter service came to an end in April 2018, when six of the site's suspected top administrators were arrested in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Canada and Serbia. Authorities in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States also seized Webstresser's servers, resulting in a full takedown of the service stress test. DDoS Stress Testing is a service designed to assess an organization's preparedness for various DDoS attack scenarios and flood magnitudes. The controlled tests are carried out against your IT infrastructure, at a prescheduled time and with real-time online support. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when an attacker, or attackers, attempt to make it impossible for a service to be delivered. This can be achieved by thwarting access to virtually anything: servers, devices, services, networks, applications, and even specific transactions within applications. In a DoS attack, it’s one system that is sending the malicious data or requests; a DDoS attack comes from multiple systems. Generally, these attacks work by drowning a system with requests for data. This could be sending a web server so many requests to serve a page that it crashes under the demand, or it could be a database being hit with a high volume of queries. The result is available internet bandwidth, CPU and RAM capacity becomes overwhelmed.
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