Israeli Online Attack Service earned $600,000 in 2 Years

vDOS advertise themselves as an ‘incredible’, ‘affordable’, ‘wonderful’, ‘amazing’ ‘IP stressers’ on their website.

An "IP stresser" is a legal, safe and effective way to see just how much traffic your site can handle before it overloads and what you can do to prepare for an actual attack launched by a malicious hacker.

IP stressers, also known as booters, allow website owners to simulate a DDoS attack under controlled conditions and thus gain understanding as to how attacks are launched and how the site will respond.

Booters allow the website owner to test the effectiveness of their contingency plans for intrusions and identify any gaps found in their security measures.

In their own words:

“Our Booter works by simulating a DDoS attack on your system. Ideally, you would want to find the strongest IP stresser to perform these type of tests.
We are not just another booter, we guarantee 10-50Gbps of UDP traffic per stress test using our DNS method, our high end dedicated servers can satisfy even the most power hungry customers.”

vDOS currently only take payment in bitcoin. The cheapest plan is $19.99 per month. The VIP package is priced at $199.99. vDOS previously accepted PayPal payments, records show that they had to work very hard to launder their proceeds through a number of PayPal accounts.

150,000 DDoS attacks has yielded vDOS profits of $618,000 over two years. The total amount of money made by vDOS is currently unknown because while the service dates back to September 2012 the payment records prior to 2014 are unavailable.

vDOS offers 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 (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets.

The vDOS database, obtained by krebsonsecurity.com at the end of July 2016, points to two young men in Israel as the principal owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States.

vDOS has been accused of putting simple to use, point-and-click cyber weapons in the hands of young men who otherwise would not know how to launch a DDoS attack. This has put website in danger from serious attacks for petty reasons and forced vast numbers of small businesses to pay for DdoS protection services.