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September 8, 2016

Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years

This post was originally published on this sitevDOS — a so-called “booter” service that 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 Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets. The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com at the end of July 2016, points to two young men in Israel as the principal owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States. The vDos […]
September 8, 2016

Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years

This post was originally published on this sitevDOS — a “booter” service that 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 Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets. The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com at the end of July 2016, points to two young men in Israel as the principal owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States. The vDos home […]
October 6, 2016

Feds Charge Two In Lizard Squad Investigation

This post was originally published on this siteThe U.S. Justice Department has charged two 19-year-old men alleged to be core members of the hacking groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp. The pair are charged with credit card theft and operating so-called “booter”or “stresser” services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful attacks designed to knock Web sites offline. The PoodleCorp/PoodleStresser attack-for-hire service. Image: USDOJ. Federal investigators charged Zachary Buchta of Fallston, Md., and Bradley Jan Willem Van Rooy of Leiden, the Netherlands with conspiring to cause damage to protected computers. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, Buchta, […]