Correcting the Record on vDOS Prosecutions
Summary: In early July 2017, West Midlands Police arrested 19-year-old Stockport resident Jack Chappell and charged him with aiding the two Israeli co-founders of vDOS, the attack-for-hire service that operated until September 2016 and launched more than 150,000 attacks against thousands of victims. Chappell pleaded guilty at the end of July 2017 to assisting attacks on sites including Amazon, BBC, BT, Netflix, T-Mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone between May 1, 2015 and April 30, 2016, and to helping vDOS launder customer payments; his sentencing was slated for December 2017.
Bottom line: vDOS made more than $600,000 in just two of its four years, and the case that tied Chappell's online and real-world identities together rested on password re-use, Hackforums activity and domains registered in his real name - the same ordinary mistakes that leave other vDOS money-launderers exposed.
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