I want to rent a botnet and point it at my own website + service stack so that I can better understand how they work and protect myself against it.

I’m looking for things like automated web scraping, targeted ddos, llm generated fake comments and stuff like that. Basically, I want to test my services against my stuff before I launch.

I don’t believe this is illegal as I’m targeting myself for education.

  • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I can outsource things like ddos protection to my cdn provider, but that would still be just kinda hoping I didn’t have any attackable surface I didn’t think of prelaunch.

    In that case, I wonder if your money would be better spent on contracting a security review. If you’re worried about unknown attack surface, I’m not sure that funding organized crime to rent a botnet would help. Botnet operators rely on you to tell them what to attack, so you’re unlikely to discover anything new here. Better to hire a professional and get a fresh opinion.