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Alleged vDOS Owners Poised to Stand Trial

March 27, 2017 admin FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, itay huri, Other, Perach Aroch, Recorded Future, themarker.com, vDos, yarden bidani

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:56:31 +0000

Police in Israel are recommending that the state attorney’s office indict and prosecute two 18-year-olds suspected of operating vDOS, until recently the most popular attack service for knocking Web sites offline. On Sept. 8, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story about the hacking of vDOS, a service that attracted tens of thousands of paying customers and facilitated countless distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. That story named two young Israelis — Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri — as the likely owners and operators of vDOS, and within hours of its publication the two were arrested by Israeli police, placed on house arrest for 10 days, and forbidden from using the Internet for a month.

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Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

January 23, 2017 admin Allison Nixon, Ammar Zuberi, anime, anna-senpai, applej4ck, BASHLITE, BlazingFast, bulletproof hoster, CJ Sculti, datawagon, ddos, ddos-for-hire, dox, dreadiscool, exfocus, Fastreturn, Fracisco Dias, Frantech, Golang, Hackforums, Hypixel, Incapsula, Jesse Wu, Josiah White, lelddos, LiteSpeed, Minecraft, Minetime, Mirai Nikki, Namecentral, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, ogmemes123123@gmail.com, Other, p1st0, Paras Jha, Pierre Lamy, ProTraf, Protraf Solutions, ProxyPipe, Qbot, Richard Stallman, Robert Coelho, Rutgers University DDoS, Supermicro, SWATting, switchnet.io, vDos, Verisign, Vyp0r

On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet for use in large cyberattacks. Roughly a week after that assault, the individual(s) who launched that attack — using the name “Anna Senpai” — released the source code for Mirai, spawning dozens of copycat attack armies online. After months of digging, KrebsOnSecurity is now confident to have uncovered Anna Senpai’s real-life identity, and the identity of at least one co-conspirator who helped to write and modify the malware.