At the height of vDOS’s profitability in mid-2015, the DDoS-for-hire service was earning its proprietors more than $42,000 a month in PayPal and Bitcoin payments from thousands of subscribers.

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 ...

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

A Manchester judge spared a UK teen who was behind a large number of DDoS attacks of any prison time, sentencing the youth to 16 months detention, suspended for two years.

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 ...

Last week, the FBI arrested a pair of Israeli teenagers who allegedly ran an online booter service called vDOS, as reported by Brian Krebs. vDOS was an online service that helped carry out ...