Alleged vDOS Operators Arrested, Charged
Summary: Two 19-year-old Israelis were formally arrested and charged this week by Israeli prosecutors with conspiring to commit a felony, prohibited activities, tampering with or disrupting a computer, and storing or disseminating false information, in connection with the vDOS attack-for-hire service. Prosecutors allege the two made more than $600,000 in two of the four years vDOS operated, a service that facilitated more than two million DDoS attacks and, at its mid-2015 peak, earned its then-17-year-old proprietors over $42,000 a month in PayPal and Bitcoin payments from thousands of subscribers, according to an NYU analysis of the leaked vDOS database.
What's compelling: The service drew tens of thousands of paying customers and ran for four years before two teenagers were detained - and the exposé that named them was answered with one of the largest DDoS attacks the Internet has seen, knocking the publisher offline for nearly four days.
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