DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time
Summary: Sergiy P. Usatyuk, 21, of Orland Park, Illinois, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire booter services, including exostress[.]in and quezstresser[.]com, and pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers. The Justice Department said users of his booters ordered approximately 3,829,812 DDoS attacks in just the first 13 months of a 27-month conspiracy, and he will forfeit $542,925 in proceeds plus dozens of servers and other equipment.
Why it matters: One booter service alone, ExoStresser, advertised 1,367,610 attacks and 109,186.4 hours of network downtime for its targets - roughly 4,549 days of outage traced to a single operator who was 15 when KrebsOnSecurity first flagged his activity to his father in 2014.
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