Israeli Teenagers Suspected of DDOS Attacks

Two Israeli teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of running a service that allowed paying customers to attack websites.

19:24 13 September 2016

Two Israeli teenagers are taken into custody on suspicion of bombarding target sites with data to knock them offline. Their vDos website went offline shortly after they were arrested.

 

Itay Huri and Yarden Bidana, both 18, had posted $10,000 bail and are currently under house arrest for 10 days. They were made to surrender their passports and were barred from using the net or any other communication device for 30 days.

 

Their arrests were made after cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs posted a lengthy article claiming to expose the controllers of the vDos service. He said: "To say that vDos has been responsible for a majority of the DDoS attacks clogging up the internet over the past few years would be an understatement."

 

The UK’s Imperial College, game site GoodGame.co.uk and security company Zare.com were reportedly victims of the vDos sourced attacks.