Zachary Buchta

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, […]
June 7, 2020

Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

This post was originally published on this siteThe co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept. 8, 2016. A judge in Israel handed down the sentences plus fines and probation against Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri, both Israeli citizens arrested in 2016 at age 18 in connection with an FBI investigation into vDOS. Until it was shuttered in […]