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We analyze the threat of DDoS-for-hire services to low and medium power cloud-based servers or home users. We aim to investigate popularity and availability of such services, their payment models, subscription pricing, complexity of the generated attack traffic and performance.
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Bukac, V., Stavova, V., Nemec, L., Riha, Z., Matyas, V. (2015). Service in Denial – Clouds Going with the Winds. In: Qiu, M., Xu, S., Yung, M., Zhang, H. (eds) Network and System Security. NSS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25645-0_9
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