vDOS -- a so-called "booter" service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ...

Cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs has detailed the business model and practices of vDOS, a shady DDoS attack service that lets anyone buy attacks.

Krebs on Security writes: vDOS – a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service ...

Two young Israeli men alleged to be the co-owners of a popular online attack-for-hire service were reportedly arrested in Israel on Thursday. The pair were arrested around the same time that ...

Israeli authorities have officially charged two 19-year-old teenagers for running vDos, a DDoS-for-hire service, the largest such platform at the time it went down in the autumn of last year.

Krebs was leaked a database from vDOS last week after it was itself hacked, revealing the huge scale of the site: "To say that vDOS has been responsible for a majority of the DDoS attacks clogging ...