Biggest DDoS Attackers A Pair Audacious Of Israeli Teens, Arrested By FBI

For those who have been playing online games via Battle.net or following tech news for the last year, reports of escalating DDoS attacks are nothing new. What might surprise folks, however, is the fact that the majority of these attacks were carried out by only two people. Even more astonishing, is that the two are Israeli teens who were running a company called vDOS.

Krebs On Security was one of the first to shed light on the activities of this Israeli pair when it made an article about how they made over $600,000 clogging up the internet with DDoS attacks. When the article went public, the site also got slammed with a DDoS attack; likely a response to the damning piece.

Shortly after that, the FBI stepped in and arrested the two in Israel, Israeli news site The Maker reports.  The hackers in question are Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both of whom are 18 years of age. The arrest was made Thursday last week and after getting questioned by federal agents, got released on bonds worth $10,000 for each.

Right now, the two hackers are under house arrest, with their passports seized and unable to use the internet for any reason. They also won’t be able to use phones or any device to contact anybody for 30 days.

Huri and Bidani are allegedly behind the “booter” service called vDOS, which is behind DDoS attacks that rendered several websites unable to serve users or even function. This allowed the pair to amass significant income over the last two years. Ironically, their identities and that of their clients were exposed due to hackers targeting vDOS.

More than that, it would seem that the two weren’t exactly careful about who learns of their activities, hinting at growing confidence after remaining untouched. One of them even discussed his trade on his Facebook page, where friends would talk to him about his work in launching DDoS attacks.