Alleged Proprietors of 'DDOS For Hire' Service vDOS Arrested (krebsonsecurity.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader pdclarry writes: Brian Krebs reports that the two youthful (18-year-old) alleged proprietors of vDOS, the DDOS service have been arrested in Israel on a complaint from the FBI. They have been released on $10,000 bond each, their passports lifted, and they have been placed under house arrest, and banned from using the Internet for 30 days. They were probably identified through a massive hack of the vDOS database recently [reported Friday morning on Slashdot].

Krebs also reports that vDOS's DNS addresses were hijacked by the firm BackConnect Security to get out from under a sustained DDOS attack, and that his site, krebsonsecurity.com has been under a sustained DDOS attack since his last article was published, with the packets containing the string "godiefaggot". Those attacks continue, but, as he has been the target of many DDOS attacks in the past, he's covered by a DDOS protection firm. The two teenagers coordinated more than 150,000 denial-of-service attacks over the last two years, according to Krebs, using at least four servers in Bulgaria.

Comments

Re:What a legend

[Gumbercules!!]

Actually the guy is a pretty good journalist - unlike most he doesn't just cut and paste from another source and turn up for his paycheque. He's also pretty fearless and done some real investigations. I like him.

How long have they been active?

[Vlad_the_Inhaler]

I read the article here a couple of days ago where he "outed" the pair and got the impression that vDOS had been active for more than just two years.

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.

They are 18 now? Most of their misdeeds would have been performed as minors, and I'm a bit sceptical that they started when they were (at most) 14.