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DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - Asperities - 08-15-2016

DDoSCoin, developed by Eric Wustrow and Benjamin VanderSloot from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Michigan, is a theoretical cryptocurrency that rewards a miner for opening a large number of TLS connections to target web servers.

The malicious proof-of-work (which the duo called "Proof-of-DDoS") model used by DDoSCoin miners functions only with websites that support TLS 1.2, and since over half of the top million websites support TLS 1.2 version of the protocol, it will be easy for miners to earn the reward.

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"In modern versions of TLS, the server signs a client-provided parameter during the handshake, along with server-provided values used in the key exchange of the connection," the researchers wrote in the paper DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with a Malicious Proof-of-Work [PDF], allowing the client to prove that it has participated in the DDoS attack against the target server.

In this way, the new system will reward users who prove they have participated in a DDoS attack.
Miners with DDoSCoin blocks could then trade their cryptocurrencies for other, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, the researchers suggested.
The researchers presented their paper at the Usenix 2016 security conference, noting that Bitcoin's computationally intensive proof-of-DDoS "does not contribute to any useful problems besides securing the currency from attack."

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/ddoscoin-cryptocurrency.html

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - Skullmeat - 08-16-2016

Great. Crypto-currency to encourage people to break the law and skids to DDOS. As if the hacking scene wasn't cancer enough.

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RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - Skryptec - 08-16-2016

So if I ddos all day, I get a reward.

What the fuck?

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - mothered - 08-16-2016

DDoS nowadays?

I can't believe what I've just read.

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - Ex094 - 08-16-2016

Read about this on Hacker News, Now skids have more reasons to DDOS -_-

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - Wildfire - 08-16-2016

Remember this is just theoretical, there's no actual thing to make this happen yet. It's just an idea researchers had, and showed how it would work.

Not everything a skid needs to copy-paste to completion.

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - 2x0 - 08-17-2016

(08-16-2016, 05:52 PM)Axi Wrote: Remember this is just theoretical, there's no actual thing to make this happen yet. It's just an idea researchers had, and showed how it would work.

Not everything a skid needs to copy-paste to completion.

Although this puts the idea out there and now some big shot dark web hacker is gonna set it up.

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - meow - 08-17-2016

Looks like skids/twitter hackers found out how to make crypto currencies.

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - 2x0 - 08-17-2016

(08-17-2016, 02:02 AM)meow Wrote: Looks like skids/twitter hackers found out how to make crypto currencies.

I wouldn't just assume this. For all you know Brain Krebs could be behind it.

RE: DDoS Crypto Currency, DDoS-Coin! - meow - 08-17-2016

(08-17-2016, 02:05 AM)2x0 Wrote:
(08-17-2016, 02:02 AM)meow Wrote: Looks like skids/twitter hackers found out how to make crypto currencies.

For all you know Brain Krebs could be behind it.

For all I know? As someone who knows Brian Krebs personally, I know he wouldn't do something that encourages skid activity.