The unaware servers that get exploited will during a denial of service attack also sue the attacker.Īdam Brown (Computer Security Expert) says, You can receive a prison sentence, a fine, or both, if you execute a DDoS attack or perform, provide or receive stress or booter services. Department of Justice statement here.In January of 2013, a petition was posted on the whitehouse gov website asking to recognize it as a form of protest because of its similarity occupy movement. One minute his bank account was flooded with something illegitimate, and the next minute it was not. In other words, they found two ways to make profits from a single kind of cyberattack.Īfter the court sentenced him, however, Usatyuke was ordered to forfeit $542,925.Īpparently his financials are a lot like his DDoS attacks. 'During the period of the conspiracy, gained in excess of $550,000 from charging subscriber fees to paying customers of their booter services and selling advertising space to other booter operators.' Two years is a long time to run a booting scheme. It's also enough time for a booting scheme to become extremely profitable.Īnd until they got caught, Usatyuke and his co-conspirator were laughing all the way to the bank. 'The Criminal Division and our law enforcement partners will remain vigilant in protecting the American public from these types of sophisticated, far-reaching threats.' How much can you make through DDoS-as-a-service? 'Usatyuk combined with a co-conspirator to develop, control and operate a number of booter services and booter-related websites that launched millions of DDoS attacks that disrupted the internet connections of targeted victim computers, rendered targeted websites slow or inaccessible, and interrupted normal business operations.'Īccording to the report, he used illegal services with names such as ExoStress.in, ('ExoStresser'),, ('Betabooter'),, ,, and to commit his crimes.Īnd his actions are just one part of the problem: the crime itself points to the massive threat that DDoS-for-hire services pose in the U.S.īenczkowski explains that the government is trying to crack down on this type of cyberattack. What did the DDoS scheme look like?įor more than two years, Usatyuk 'victimized various segments of American society,' says Assistant Attorney General Brian A.

His attacks flooded the web and private servers with massive amounts of data, causing network downtime for many organizations. Usatyuk of Illinois to 13 months in prison for his role in a booter scheme that launched millions of illegal DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. federal court in North Carolina just sentenced 21-year-old Sergiy P. Another booter is brought to justice for launching DDoS attacks.Ī U.S.

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