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After Brian Krebs exposed a DDoS-for-hire service disguised as "stress testing", a denial-of-service attack was launched against his website. Now, the two alleged operators of the service have been arrested:
Krebs describes vDos as a DDoS-for-Hire service that offered paid accounts to users who wanted to launch DDoS attacks on their targets or developers who planned to build DDoS services (stressers) of their own. The investigator provided the vDos database to Krebs, who discovered that, in the last two years, vDos customers launched over 150,000 DDoS attacks that totaled more than 277 million seconds of attack time. The database also contained payment records. Krebs discovered that the site's two operators made $618,000 only in the last two years, based on financial records dating back to 2014. vDos launched in 2012, so it might be accurate to say that its creators have made over $1 million since its creation.
The investigator also told Krebs that vDos was hosted on servers in Bulgaria, but its two creators were from Israel, as revealed by support tickets. The site's two creators had banned the ability to launch DDoS attacks against Israeli IPs so that it would not cause problems with local authorities.
[...] Soon after the article went live and users started sharing it on social media, Reddit, Slashdot, and HackerNews, a DDoS attack hit Krebs' website. According to Krebs, the attack was initially small, only 20 Gbps, but more than enough to bring down his website. In reality, 1 Gbps is more than enough to bring down most web servers. This initial attack later turned into a 128 Gbps attack. [...] UPDATE: Minutes after publishing this story, reports came in that Israeli law enforcement arrested the two alleged vDos owners named in the Krebs report.
Also at The Register, which notes that the two men authored a paper about DDoS attacks signed with their real names, and that one of them had previously claimed to have attacked the Pentagon.
(Score: 5, Funny) by halcyon1234 on Monday September 12 2016, @08:54PM
Idiot 1: "We're doing an amazing job at bilking people who don't know any better. Who should our next target be?"
Idiot 2: "How about one of the best and most high-profile security researches who has built a career out of taking down operations like ours?"
Idiot 1: "Brillant!"
Suddenly: JAIL
Original Submission [thedailywtf.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @09:18PM
In their defense they never stood a chance with names like 'Idiot 1' and 'Idiot 2'. Their parents should have seen this coming.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @11:52PM
They are jews, and so are cunning to the core. They setup their system so it will not attack ip addresses inside their country. Quite cunning.
Intelligent... not so much.
Its almost always the less intelligent who are criminals. These two are definitely of less mental capacity. And on top of that, they are also jews.
And it will be no jail time for them. Israel was founded so that jews who are found out robbing and plundering the world can go hide there until the world forgets their crimes.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 13 2016, @01:23AM
I'm not really sure that their final DDoS was what led to their arrests. Probably the sudden publicity/exposure sparked by Krebs was to blame. Hell, I can't even attribute that DDoS to them.
but they fucked now.
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