Distributed Denial of Service Service

In a rather strange turn of events, a hacking group have advertised a DDoS service via a video on YouTube.

Hello Hackers.
I’m here to promote [a] professional, cheap, DDoS service.
It’s strong, fast, interested, with no time limit.
What we do is take down large websites, large forums, games servers and website blogs.
You can blow your competition and web enemies away.
You can reach us at Skype, Yahoo or MSN [and] we look forward to doing business with you.

The service, which has an associated web forum post advertising rates of $2/hr for up to 4 hours, $5/hr for up to 72 hours, and a fixed rate of $1,000 for a month, takes payment in PayPal, Liberty Reserve and Western Union.

Although hacking and disruption “as a service” have been around for a long time, this is a particularly brazen advertisement on YouTube, whose members haven’t responded particularly enthusiastically.