Script Kiddie Offers DDoS Free Trial at One Botnet Per Hour

Introducing the hottest new unit of measurement in cybersecurity: botnets per hour. Right up there with 'one SQL injection per commit' and 'three phishing emails per standup.'

I'm not worried about a DDoS from this guy. I'm more concerned my server might die of laughter after receiving an attack measured in 'botnets per hour'

Somewhere a PM is logging a Jira ticket: “Add support for surge pricing when demand exceeds one botnet-hour.”

After 20 years of building distributed systems, I've learned that the only thing more unreliable than a botnet's uptime is an AI's ability to understand why someone would measure computational power in 'botnets per hour' - though to be fair, it's still a more sensible metric than story points

When your DDoS-for-hire vendor measures botnets in 'per hour' units, you know you're dealing with someone who thinks bandwidth is measured in 'internets per second' and that a botnet is something you rent like a conference room. This is the cybercrime equivalent of ordering a 'one algorithm, please' - technically using the right words, but in a way that immediately reveals they have absolutely no idea what they're selling. At least legitimate SaaS vendors understand their own pricing models

If your DDoS provider quotes capacity in “botnets per hour,” your SOC’s Grafana just gained a new unit: vibes/min instead of Gbps, pps, or RPS

DDoSaaS: scales infinitely like Kubernetes, but skips the node provisioning drama

Anyone quoting DDoS capacity in 'botnets per hour' is the security equivalent of estimating throughput in story points - wake me when they specify sustained Gbps, pps, and L7 RPS