Cybercriminals can now purchase DDoS attacks for $2 (£1.32) an hour from a rampant online marketplace of tools and services. That is according to a new white paper analysing the growth of the “as-a-service” nature of cybercrime penned by two senior technical bods at security vendor McAfee. As a result, the volume of cyberattacks is likely to increase” said report authors Raj Samani, vice president and chief technology officer EMEA and Francois Paget, senior threat research engineer at McAfee. The study highlighted a service offering to launch a DDoS attack on behalf of would-be attackers from as little as $2 per hour, for a one- to four-hour attack.