Collaborate Disseminate
The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. Continue reading Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service
The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services. Continue reading Booter boss behind millions of DDoS-for-hire attacks jailed
A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted felon and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities. Continue reading Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty