Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service

The success of the Mirai botnet was apparently a shiver looking for a spine to run up: HackForums has killed off its “server stress test” DDoS-for-hire section. Site admin Jesse LaBrocca posted the decision last Friday (here for registered members of the site), saying “recent events” forced the decision. Brian Krebs quotes …

[cantankerous swineherd]

parasite concerned it might be killing the host.

[waldo kitty]

it is about time...

that someone opened their eyes to reality... one only needs to look at email spam any how those arseholes have screwed email delivery up for everyone... it used to be that anyone could set up their own SMTP server and deliver email directly to the destination but no thanks to spammers and their advertising crap, that cannot be done any more... it puts all advertisers in a huge bad and ugly spot light no matter how legitimate they may be...

[Alister]

since banner ads in the section ran to as much as US$200 a week, with a $60 premium to make the ads sticky.

I wonder what percentage of visitors to the HackForums use ad-blockers or script-blockers?

[Destroy All Monsters]

Well, well, well...

We will talk about this again when cheap DNA sequencers or even nanomachine assemblers appear in basements.

Wohoo.

[John Brown (no body)]

Pot, Kettle, Black

"LaBrocca, who goes by the handle “Omniscient” on HackForums, is apparently displeased by events since Mirai emerged, complaining that “the few ruin it for the many”.

Well, duh!