Israeli teenagers held over data flood internet attacks
The BBC is reporting that two Israeli teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of running a service that allowed paying customers to attack websites.
“The vDos service the pair are suspected to have run bombarded target sites with data, seeking to knock them offline…
… cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs.. claimed the site’s controllers had been “not terribly careful to cover their tracks” , using email addresses and phone numbers on sites connected to vDos that could be directly connected to them.
He said the stolen data indicated the vDos service had generated $600,000 over the past two years by helping to co-ordinate more than 150,000 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
And vDos had charged between $30 and $200 a month for each attack.
Mr Krebs wrote: “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.”…
One quirk of the service was that it had a policy of never attacking websites located in Israel.”
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack aims to bombard websites with so much traffic that they are unable to cope, and fail. It uses ‘botnets’, a series of computers that criminals have managed to secretly gain control of, to provide enough capability to do this.
A solution for this type of attack is to use a product that operates almost in the same way by providing a huge network which absorbs these types of attack before they affect your website.
These type of DDoS attacks can often be used to mask other criminal activity going on in the back round and is often used as a distraction tool for targeted attacks.
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