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===Denial-of-service as a service=== {{Main|Stresser}} Some vendors provide so-called ''booter'' or ''stresser'' services, which have simple web-based front ends, and accept payment over the web. Marketed and promoted as stress-testing tools, they can be used to perform unauthorized denial-of-service attacks, and allow technically unsophisticated attackers access to sophisticated attack tools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/stress-testing-the-booter-services-financially/|title=Stress-Testing the Booter Services, Financially|last=Krebs|first=Brian|date=August 15, 2015|website=Krebs on Security|access-date=2016-09-09}}</ref> Usually powered by a botnet, the traffic produced by a consumer stresser can range anywhere from 5-50 Gbit/s, which can, in most cases, deny the average home user internet access.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mubarakali|first1=Azath|last2=Srinivasan|first2=Karthik|last3=Mukhalid|first3=Reham|last4=Jaganathan|first4=Subash C. B.|last5=Marina|first5=Ninoslav|date=2020-01-26|title=Security challenges in internet of things: Distributed denial of service attack detection using support vector machine-based expert systems|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coin.12293|journal=Computational Intelligence|language=en|volume=36|issue=4|pages=1580β1592|doi=10.1111/coin.12293|s2cid=214114645|issn=0824-7935}}</ref>
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