vDOS lets consumers choose from different subscription choices that allowed a customization of how many seconds the attack would run for.
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The story was unveiled by American cyber-security expert and tech writer Brian Krebs, who published an article about another major cyber crime operation on his blog last week that led back to Huri and Bidani. His own site suffered a huge DDoS attack after he published the report.
The vDOS cyberattack service, in connection of which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested two Israeli eighteen-year-olds, has apparently perpetrated “a majority” of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites in the past few years. The cyberattack spiked at nearly 140 Gbps. Its owners are now under house arrest in Israel. “A single message was buried in each attack packet: “godiefaggot”. The pair is forbidden from accessing the internet, leaving the country or using any telecommunications equipment for the next 30 days.
vDOS had been in operation since September 2012, Krebs added.
Townsend said: “For about six hours, we were seeing attacks of more than 200 Gbps hitting us”.
It’s unclear what will happen next for the business, which went offline on Friday.
Both Huri and Bidani have been very active in the DDoS community having issued a technical paper online detailing their method of DDoS attack with Huri revealing within that document that he was about to be drafted into the Israeli Defence Forces.
Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both 18, were released on bail to their homes in central Israel on Thursday, the financial daily The Marker reported over the weekend.
“vDOS’s customer support system was configured to send a text message to Huri’s phone number in Israel – the same phone number that was listed in the website registration records for the domain v-email [dot] org, a domain the proprietors used to help manage the site”.
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The site was breached after another DDoS-for-hire service, called PoodleStresser, was itself hacked. The files include the usernames of vDOS clients, the internet addresses of the targets, date and time of the execution of attacks and more.
