Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service
The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed
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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS
A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to
Read more U.K. Man Avoids Jail Time in vDOS Case
A U.K. man who pleaded guilty to launching more than 2,000 cyberattacks against some of the world’s largest companies has
Read more Correcting the Record on vDOS Prosecutions
KrebsOnSecurity recently featured a story about a New Mexico man who stands accused of using the now-defunct vDOS attack-for-hire service
Read more Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man
A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch
Read more Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm?
It’s been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world’s top online Web sites being taken
Read more Alleged vDOS Operators Arrested, Charged
Two young Israeli men alleged by this author to have co-founded vDOS — until recently the largest and most profitable
Read more Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years
vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than
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