Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years (krebsonsecurity.com)
pdclarry writes: Brian Krebs writes that he has obtained the hacked database of an Israeli company that is responsible for most of the large-scale DDoS attacks over the past (at least) 4 years. The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com at the end of July 2016, points to two young men in Israel as the principle owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States. Records before 2012 were not in the dump, but Krebs believes that the service has actually been operating for decades. The report starts by saying, "vDos -- a so-called 'booter' service has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock websites offline -- has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets." In regard to how long the service has been operating, Krebs believes the service has been operating for decades "because the data leaked in the hack of vDOS suggests that the proprietors erased all digital records of attacks that customers launched between Sept. 2012 (when the service first came online) and the end of March 2016."
As someone else explained to me the last time there was an article with Israel in it, the Jews only do these awful things because all of their neighbors hate them, they are basically swell people.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
The article does not claim to prove the offending service has been in operation for decades. Instead it, says this:
Although I can’t prove it yet, it seems likely that vDOS is responsible for several decades worth of DDoS years. That’s because the data leaked in the hack of vDOS suggest that the proprietors erased all digital records of attacks that customers launched between Sept. 2012 (when the service first came online) and the end of March 2016.
Krebs is using "DDoS year" metric to describe the scale of traffic involved. -PCP
the proprietors of vDOS are indeed living in Israel and in fact set the service up so that it was unable to attack any Web sites in that country
#Hitler2016
The summary isn't great, it seems to contradict itself a couple of times. If the site "erased all digital records of attacks that customers launched between Sept. 2012 ... and the end of March 2016", then how do you have data for "the past two years"? I skimmed the whole article and didn't find an answer to that one, my best guess is that they meant the attack data itself was erased, but the service requests, chat logs, etc that Krebs references were not erased.
Regarding the "operating for decades" vs "Sept. 2012 (when the service first came online)", it's because Krebs is writing about the aggregate amount of time wasted by the DDoS. He calls it "DDoS seconds" which he then rolls up to years. He is not suggesting the service has been operating for decades, but rather that in the past 5 years the service has caused the equivalent of decades worth of service disruption. (So if 30 hosts are disrupted for 2 hour, that's 60 hours of downtime total, or "DDoS 2.5 days", even though the DDoS attacks only lasted 2 hours and ran in parallel.)
The most interesting part of the article is that subscribing to the DDoS service was only $30/month. That sounds cheaper than paying for DDoS protection/mitigation services, and makes me wonder if vDOS will change their service into a protection racket (pay us to be on our "protected" list so other members can't DDoS you.)
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They wrote this about you goyim/gentiles: Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less, hypocrites known as thieves all thru history (or was Egypt, Spain, France and Poland who got rid of the nazi german's too?):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it."
22. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean."
23. Nedarim 23b: "He who desires that none of his vows made during the year be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare, 'Every vow which I may make in the future shall be null'. His vows are then invalid."
Really nice people guess all nations are nazis (france, spain, egypt "despoiling" robbing it, poland and more kicked them out) but those ovens fired up proving what is what and germans did what they did as jews surrounded a baker in a village by underpricing him funded by many jews putting him out of business. They warned the jews, get out
I think the "operating for decades" refers to the people and their DDoS activities and "sept. 2012" refers to the specific website they use to offer those activities.
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Sorry, my bad, you were right and the summary is truely that bad.
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Good work, you know how to right it wrong.
And I didn't know 5 years were enough to count as "decades".
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“The DDoS-for-hire service is hidden behind DDoS protection firm Cloudflare”
Nuff said.
This is not pedantry.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Now that these guys are exposed as living in a country supposedly with laws, what will happen to them.
They didn't steal or break any major infrastructure, but they did cause quite a bit of mayhem.
Perhaps a bit of computer timeout to provide time to think and retrain for something productive.
Some have hoped these guys will now get prosecuted in Israel. Doubtful. More likely, they will be joining a shadowy IDF unit, probably with a bump-up in pay (they didn't target their fellow chosen citizens, so no problem).
The summary is wrong. The author didn't say the service has been operating for decades. It said its likely to have been responsible for several decades' worth of attacks, which this service measured in seconds. Since the service allows many concurrent attacks, Krebs said that in four months time the site was responsible for 8 years ("DDoS years) worth of attacks.
...because you never know who you're dealing with.
I know the article refers to the cumulative attack time, but the summary is weird. I was thinking: "What was there to DDoS decades ago, and how did you do it back then?".
So, let's see how to distinguish between legitimate criticism and anti-semitism.
If someone says "Since they are in Israel, they won't get punished" (as some here did), that's criticism of Israel. It is incorrect criticism, devoid of any substantiation and relation to the truth, but it is a legitimate criticism. We can conduct a facts based discussion to sort out whether it is true or not.
If someone reflects from those two people to their entire nationality, not to mention entire religious group, with no bearing to any half reasonable reason to do so, that's racism.
You, dear frovingslosh, have made a racist comment as a first post, and got +4 insightful on it. Well done, Slashdot. Well done.
Shachar
Any time I see dDos or vDos I think of things like Dr. Dos and look for screen shots.
*mows lawn with sharpened 8" and 5.25" floppy disks that are single sided*
I must say, I am pleasantly surprised to see so much blatant anti-semitism and hatred of rat-faced, money-changing kikes here on Slashdot. I can see I am among friends.
Posting anonymously because my company is currently the target of such an attack and I don't our adversary information. The cost to defend against someone using their paid ($30/month) service would be around $6000/month from Akamai. If we were a website-only service, the cost would be much lower ($200/month) from Cloudflare.
For a company! The average /.er must be over half of that, >$150K/annum.
Huh, $300K/year for a high-profile startup? That's not very much.
Jews did. I just read it. Can you prove I posted it? No. In the end I pity jews actually! They do bring it on themselves. Anyone can read that link and decide for themselves.
See, as far as racism, which that link is clearly loaded with and yes, those are quotes from the jewish talmud?
Hey - I've heard "stupid polock" directed my way a few times in my life but I knew better (if not for us poles you'd all be saying "Allah Ackbar" or have your heads cut off etc.) - Poles & Greeks saved you from that.
APK
P.S.=> Zontar, do I have to post all the times you've trolled me too like threatening me "WATCH YOUR MAIL" -> https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4980459&cid=46704073/ sending me a POSTCARD as you did, which I STILL HAVE mind you, like the loon you are? apk
So we have the names, we know what they did and where they live. There is a money trail, so when are they extradited to the US?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The occupation continues, free Occupied Palestine! As long as UN Resolution 242 is disregarded and Israel continues to seed settlements in Palestine, and wholesale bomb Gaza and neighboring countries, there will never be peace. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2008/12/gaza-reduced-bare-survival-20081205/
Whoever coined the "vDOS" name missed out on a great opportunity. It should have been DDoSaaS.
Whatever. I see a lot worse here https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9630813&cid=52853705/ & I'm not the author of that - afaik & have read, the jews are.
* Honestly? They create their own issues from what I see. Convince me otherwise (Or are the French, Poles, Egyptians, Spanish along w/ the Germans all 'wrong' here? THAT is the TRUE question - they didn't want them around anymore!)
APK
P.S.=> What I find quite unbelievable is that the USA is no longer that (not once I saw "FREE SPEECH ZONES") - Yet those writing stuff like what's in that link TRY to say "Anti-Semitism"? Please... apk
CloudFlare is hosting many of these DDoS services to start with, including the one in this article. Check out this recent list of DDoS/"Stresser"/"Booter" websites proudly hosted by CloudFlare:
alphastress.com, anonymous-stresser.net, aurastresser.com, beststresser.com, boot4free.com, booter.eu, booter.org, booter.xyz, bullstresser.com, buybooters.com, cnstresser.com, connectionstresser.com, crazyamp.me, critical-boot.com, cstress.net, cyberstresser.org, darkstresser.info, darkstresser.net, databooter.com, ddos-fighter.com, ddos-him.com, ddos.city, ddosbreak.com, ddosclub.com, ddostheworld.com, defcon.pro, destressbooter.com, destressnetworks.com, diamond-stresser.net, diebooter.com, diebooter.net, down-stresser.com, downthem.org, exitus.to, exostress.in, free-boot.xyz, freebooter4.me, freestresser.xyz, grimbooter.com, heavystresser.com, hornystress.me, iddos.net, inboot.me, instabooter.com, ipstresser.co, ipstresser.com, jitterstresser.com, k-stress.pw, layer-4.com, layer7.pw, legionboot.com, logicstresser.net, mercilesstresser.com, mystresser.com, netbreak.ec, netspoof.net, networkstresser.com, neverddos.com, nismitstresser.net, onestress.com, onestresser.net, parabooter.com, phoenixstresser.com, pineapple-stresser.com, powerstresser.com, privateroot.fr, purestress.net, quantumbooter.net, quezstresser.com, ragebooter.net, rawlayer.com, reafstresser.ga, restricted-stresser.info, routerslap.com, sharkstresser.com, signalstresser.com, silence-stresser.com, skidbooter.info, spboot.net, stormstresser.net, str3ssed.me, stressboss.net, stresser.club, stresser.in, stresser.network, stresser.ru, stresserit.com, synstress.net, titaniumbooter.net, titaniumstresser.net, topstressers.com, ts3booter.net, unseenbooter.com, vbooter.org, vdos-s.com, webbooter.com, webstresser.co, wifistruggles.com, xboot.net, xr8edstresser.com, xtreme.cc, youboot.net
If CloudFlare would stop providing bulletproof hosting for criminals and spammers, the internet would be a better place. But CloudFlare apparently loves its criminal customers. DDoS purveyors, terrorist websites, malware distributors, CloudFlare seems to welcome them all to its hive of scum and villainy. Maybe it's time to revive the concept of the Usenet Death Penalty and apply it to all traffic to and from CloudFlare. They're the sewer of the internet and should be null routed and de-peered.
See also: CloudFlare Watch
I have to laugh @ you with your "WATCH YOUR MAIL" -> https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4980459&cid=46704073/ sending me a POSTCARD as you did, which I STILL HAVE mind you, like the loon you are? LMAO!
* You're a whacko...
APK
P.S.=> NO questions asked... apk
It's scary how much damage to a business one could do with just peanuts worth of money ...
Essentially one could ruin a small business quite efficiently with a cheap DDoS if the business was reliant on their site and could not protect themselves ... :O