Two Israeli teens arrested for running major DDoS service

Last week, the FBI arrested a pair of Israeli teenagers who allegedly ran an online booter service called vDOS, as reported by Brian Krebs. vDOS was an online service that helped carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites. The business allowed buyers to choose from various subscription options that specified how many seconds the attacks would run for. For their services, the pair reportedly earned over $600,000, chiefly through Bitcoin. vDOS was reportedly responsible for a majority of the DDoS attacks across the world Krebs had written about the pai... more »