Krebs’ site under attack after alleged J00ish owners of DDoS-for-hire service were arrested

After security journalist Brian Krebs exposed the DDoS-for-hire service, vDOS, and the alleged owners of the service were arrested, a massive attack was launched against the Krebs on Security site.

Krebs’ site under attack after alleged J00ish owners of DDoS-for-hire service were arrested Hacker-100682020-primary.idge

Krebs’ site under attack after alleged J00ish owners of DDoS-for-hire service were arrested Hacker-100682020-primary.idge

Last Thursday, Krebs wrote about vDOS and the two 18-year-old Israeli hackers running the DDoS attack service. In the past two years, the duo launched over 150,000 attacks and made at least $618,000. vDOS had been hacked and Krebs had obtained a copy of the vDOS database.

vDOS had paying subscribers with the cost depending upon how many seconds the DDoS attack lasted. Krebs reported, “In just four months between April and July 2016, vDOS was responsible for launching more than 277 million seconds of attack time, or approximately 8.81 years’ worth of attack traffic.”

Shortly after Kreb’s investigative article started hitting the news, Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri were arrested by Israel police in connection with an FBI investigation into the DDoS-for-hire service. After the two handed over their passports, they were released on bond, placed on house arrest and banned from using any electronic communications for 30 days.

On Friday, the Krebs on Security site was hit with a “heavy and sustained denial-of-service attack, which spiked at almost 140 Gbps.” Krebs added, “A single message was buried in each attack packet: ‘godiefaggot’.”

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3118303/security/krebs-site-under-attack-after-alleged-owners-of-ddos-for-hire-service-were-arrested.html

Krebs’ site under attack after alleged J00ish owners of DDoS-for-hire service were arrested

Krebs’ site under attack after alleged J00ish owners of DDoS-for-hire service were arrested

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