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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

Summary: Sergiy P. Usatyuk, 20, of Orland Park, Illinois, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers for owning and operating booter services including exostress[.]in, quezstresser[.]com and zstress[.]net under the aliases "Andrew Quez" and "Brian Martinez." Court documents indicate Usatyuk and an unnamed co-conspirator earned nearly $550,000 launching some 3.8 million attacks, with the services run through a Delaware corporation called OkServers LLC that the government says ignored abuse complaints.

Bottom line: The operation ran for years and generated nearly $550,000 from roughly 3.8 million attacks, and the hosting entity behind it was described by the government as effectively bulletproof - a reminder that the infrastructure serving DDoS-for-hire is often a registered company that simply declines to act on abuse reports.

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