so they'll point it a domain they control, then reverse proxy it onto their target?

What do you propose they do instead?

not offer automated targeted hacking as a service?

even the booters market themselves as as "legitimate stress testing tools for enterprise"

> not offer automated targeted hacking as a service?

MindFort is not the first and won't be the last. There are plenty of DAST tools offered as a SaaS that are the same thing.

How about the would-be victims don’t ship exploitable software to production? If that’s not possible, then maybe they should signup for an automated targeted hacking service to find the exploitable bugs before someone else does.

Your argument is straight out of the 1990s. We’ve moved beyond this as an industry, as you can see from the proliferation of bug bounty programs, responsible disclosure policies, CVE transparency, etc…

And in the process, reveal their own IP address rather than MindFort's.

by theirs, you mean, the IP of a IoT device/router they've hacked