Overvest, Bastiaan; Straathof, Bas - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2015
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a frequently occurring type of cybercrime, with potentially large costs to the real economy. We propose a simple model of the size and direction of DDoS attacks.
The main predictions of the model are that effective botnets are located in...