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Do you think hosting companys, create DDoS attack?
lukenstine
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its just a question i'm not accusing anyone of anything.
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Absolutely. I could never prove it, except for Athena Layer when Nick posted a video of himself attacking a website to sell DDOS protection.
Do tire companies throw nails in the road? Maybe...
Absolutely. It keeps the market on its toes
Similar concept, but I get spammed and then coincidentally some guy named Jarland over at a company named "MXRoute" emails me offering an email solution with anti-spam.
Very odd.
Professional and serious companies wouldn't do it, that's why you should choose carefully who trust on.
Some.
Certainly. Hosting is an industry with a lot of kids, and where there are a lot of kids you can expect DDoS attacks.
only people with extensive network knowledge would be able to design attacks, what do you think?
Yes.
It doesn't help that many networks make big money with them.
Example: CloudFlare knowingly hosting booters and selling protection from them.
Money talks, sadly.
There is probably a few, but most of them are found on HackForums.
I agree with what neps said. But I don't think that major companies would attempt such a ploy because if they were to get caught it would cause more problems than what is worth.
Nah, they just trip over a cable and forget to plug it back in for a while.
Much cheaper than hiring someone that knows how to talk about DDOS mitigation.
Well, if people are telling you "I have 10Gbit and I can DDOS if i like, in case we get abuse messages, we telling them it was a costumer, Problem solved."
so for sure Yes.
Probably a few. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I am sure they do. Maybe not in person but via some third party.
@Safehousecloud said:
There's a couple providers off the top of my head that ran/run booters as a side business.
Francisco
Lets wait for UK offer
Yeah - there's no doubt there are a few less than reputable providers that seek to destroy competition - which is by no means odd. As someone above mentioned though, it's not likely to be any somewhat successful or remotely significant provider.
@Francisco - Do you know if you're ever specifically targetted? Would require some serious horsepower to bring down your uplinks, heh!
"gold is worse poison to a man's soul" (in this case CloudFlare - quote 100% mine)
We Anti Virus software now.
Francisco
Some serious ponypower*
There are plenty of hosts on this site that DDOS their competition. Try posting an ad here for VPSs in the UK and watch the packets fly. There are quite a few hosts who refuse to advertise on here because of competitors who knock their websites offline as soon as an ad goes up on LEB/LET.
We've actually been forced to leave a data center because we were so popular on here that people have publicly threatened us if we continued posting ads, presumably because it was hurting their business.
The LEB mafia at work.
Design maybe, but you need zero knowledge to actually initiate one. Kiddies do it all the time, or pay someone else to do it.