The Italian Honey Project

Cyber criminals are renting out their botnets for just £5.99 an hour, enabling unskilled crooks to launch DDoS attacks.

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They found the herders used many of the typical advertising tools to attract people, from banner advertising to forum marketing, and then charged just under £45 for a full day of botnet attacks capable of taking down websites and applications.

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