Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years
Summary: vDOS, a DDoS-for-hire "booter" service, was hacked in July 2016, exposing databases showing it earned more than $618,000 from tens of thousands of paying customers since July 2014 and launched over 277 million seconds of attack traffic between April and July 2016 alone. The leaked records point to two young men in Israel, known online as P1st and AppleJ4ck, as the principal owners, with the service sold on Hackforums in tiers from $20 to $200 per month and paid for in Bitcoin and PayPal.
What you should know: The service blacklisted all Israeli IP ranges so its owners would not draw attention from authorities in their home country, while a researcher's tests of its attacks measured 14 Gbps and 6 Gbps - more than enough to take down most sites without DDoS protection.
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