The pair were detained within hours of being named in a story on this blog as the co-proprietors of the service (this site would later suffer a three-day outage as a result of an attack that was alleged to have been purchased in retribution for my reporting on vDOS). Last fall, two 18-year-old Israeli men were arrested for allegedly running a vDOS, perhaps the most successful booter service of all time.
A new report proves the value of following the money in the fight against dodgy cybercrime services known as “booters” or “stressers” - virtual hired muscle that can be rented to knock nearly any website offline.
