Who is motivated to launch DDoS against smaller businesses? What do they have to gain?

the_bear 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My small SaaS app has been DDoSed a handful of times, always accompanied by an email asking for a ransom in the form of bitcoin.

The first time we switched to Cloudflare which saved us. Even with Cloudflare, the DDoS attempts are still damaging (the site goes down, we use Cloudflare to block the endpoints they're targeting, they change endpoints, etc.) but manageable. Without Cloudflare or something like it, I think it's possible that we'd be out of business.

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xslvrxslwt 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anyone that has $5.

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Mordisquitos 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I've also got €5, but I see greater return on investment in spending them on a lottery ticket than in DDoS'ing arbitrary small businesses.

	▲	xslvrxslwt 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know, but people love the feel of "power", especially when it's cheap or even free