Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service
Summary: An Israeli court sentenced vDOS co-owners Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri, arrested in 2016 at age 18, to six months of community service plus fines and probation for running a DDoS-for-hire service that launched more than two million attacks over four years. The judge imposed the lowest possible sentence, citing that the two were minors during most of their offenses, while noting more than $175,000 in profits had already been seized and that vDOS earned the pair a little over $600,000.
What you should know: vDOS advertised attacks up to 50 Gbps and logged more than 277 million seconds of attack time in just four months of 2016, yet its operators received community service rather than prison - and the judge noted Defendant #1 showed 'a clear and daunting boundary for recurrence of further offenses in the future.'
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