“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison
Summary: Matthew Gatrel, 33, of St. Charles, Illinois, was sentenced to two years in prison after a nine-day jury trial in the Central District of California convicted him on all three counts tied to running the DDoS-for-hire services downthem[.]org and ampnode[.]com. Prosecutors said the services had thousands of customers who paid to launch more than 200,000 attacks, and that Gatrel and co-defendant Juan Martinez scanned the Internet for misconfigured devices and sold lists of those addresses to other booter operators.
What you should know: The FBI seized 15 booter domains in 2018 and prosecutions followed, yet DDoS experts quoted here say booter and stresser services still account for the vast majority of DDoS attacks launched daily around the globe.
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