Episode 8 - DDOS For Hire

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Jordan & Scott discuss Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks.
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In this long-awaited return of Hacked, hosts Jordan Bloemen and Scott Winder explore how a single DDoS for hire attack cut off internet access for all of Liberia-costing the attacker only “the price of a used car.” They begin by revisiting a 2016 incident where a wave of cheaply made, insecure IoT devices (like hacked security cameras) overwhelmed Liberia’s limited internet infrastructure, effectively shutting down the country’s connectivity.
From there, Jordan and Scott break down how Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks work: by marshaling an army of compromised devices (a botnet) to flood a target with enormous amounts of fake traffic-whether it’s a website, a corporate network, or an entire nation’s ISP. They discuss the motivations behind DDoS attacks (covering other hacks, hacktivism, commercial sabotage, or extortion) and spotlight the “DDoS for hire” services that have turned knocking a site offline into a cheap, outsourced business model.
The hosts also address modern anti-DDoS measures like content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud-based filtering (e.g., Cloudflare), and they underline the constant escalation as attackers discover new methods to generate massive traffic, from Mirai-like IoT botnets to exploits of services like Memcached. Ultimately, this episode illustrates that while blocking the world’s biggest companies can be challenging, cutting off entire countries with a few keystrokes is disturbingly attainable-and marks a new, unsettling era of cyberattacks fueled by easy-to-rent digital firepower.