Israeli authorities have put forward official charges against two teenagers who ran a service for the implementation of custom DDoS-attacks vDos. At the time of its closure in autumn 2016, vDOS was the world's largest platform of this kind.

Service lasted from 2012 to 2016. VDos customers could issue a paid monthly subscription to the "stressor" according to various tariff plans, and also rent a botnet for DDoS attacks.

In the summer of 2016, the platform's affairs began to decline. A group called PoodleCorp leased a botnet from vDos to use it for DDoS attacks using its own PoodleStresser tool. However, the vulnerability in PoodleStresser led to data leakage and led journalist Brian Krebs to vDos owners Itay Khoury and Yarden Bidani, who at that time were 18 years old.

After only a few hours after the publication of the Krebs revelation article on the FBI tip, Israeli law enforcement authorities arrested two teenagers. The arrest caused a storm of resentment from vDos customers and a cybercrime community specializing in custom DDoS attacks. In retaliation for their associates, they brought down the DDoS attack on the journalist's website, which at that time was the most powerful in the history of the Internet.

According to the prosecutor's office, the investigation is moving forward, and this week, the suspects were formally charged.

The authorities do not name their names, because at the time of the crime the adolescents were underage. Nevertheless, much of what was reported by the Israeli prosecutor's office coincides with the data submitted by Krebs.

According to the investigation, with the help of vDos was carried out about 2 million attacks. Money received from customers money teenagers laundered through two front companies in the UK. For two years, the service brought its creators about $ 600 thousand.