authorities taking action against accused DDoS operators. The announcement only is the latest example of U.S. “The operation and use of these services to disrupt the operations of our businesses and other institutions cannot be tolerated.” in the Justice Department’s announcement. “DDoS-for-hire services pose a malicious threat to the citizens of our district, as well as districts across the country, by impeding critical access to the internet and jeopardizing safety and security in the process,” said U.S. Usatyuk was active from around August 2015 to November 2017. In one case in 2017, a Betabooter user launched a number of DDoS attackers against a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, school district that also affected 17 other organization, including the county government, prosecutors said. The Exostresser services alone facilitated 1,367,610 DDoS attacks which caused victims to suffer 109,186 hours of downtime, the DOJ said Wednesday. Usatyuk was involved with booter and stresser services including ExoStresser, QuezStresser, BetaBooter Databooter, Instabooter, Polystress and Zstress.

Sergiy Usatyuk and a co-conspirator gained more than $550,000 by charging subscribers for access to booter and stresser services, which typically enable attackers, using only a web browser, to launch a DDoS attack capable of knocking target sites offline. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. school districts and other targets, the U.S. A 20-year-old Illinois man pleaded guilty to charges related to a scheme to launch millions of distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S.

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