В§ 1030), and may result in arrest and prosecution, seizure of computers or other electronics, significant prison sentences, and a penalty or fine.This week the FBI arrested a 26-year-old southern California man for launching a DDoS attack against online chat service Chatango at the end of 2014 and in early 2015 - part of a new crackdown on the customers of 'DDoS-for-hire' services. In December 2018, the DOJ brought charges against three men as part of an unprecedented, international takedown targeting 15 different booter sites.ДЄccording to the government, the use of booter and stresser services to conduct attacks is punishable under both wire fraud laws and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. SergiyвЂ™s guilty plea comes amid a major crackdown by the FBI and the Justice Department on booter services and their operators. HereвЂ™s SergiyвЂ™s response to multiple abuse complaints about OKServers filed in the summer of 2018 by Troy Mursch, chief research officer at Bad Packets LLC. The government says he ran the booter services through a Delaware corporation called вЂњ OkServers LLC,вЂќ which routinely ignored abuse complaints and as such effectively operated as a вЂњbulletproofвЂќ hosting company - despite SergiyвЂ™s claims to the contrary. His dad hung up on me when I called Wednesday evening requesting comment.Д¬ourt documents (PDF) related to his case indicate Sergiy Usatyuk and an unnamed co-conspirator earned nearly $550,000 launching some 3.8 million attacks through their various DDoS-for-hire services. IвЂ™m guessing young Sergiy never had his Internet privileges revoked, nor did he heed advice to use his skills for less destructive activities. Who knows, maybe his dad will ground him and take away his Internet privileges. Rasbora has tried to clean up some of his more self-incriminating posts on Hackforums, but he remains defiantly steadfast in his claim that he doesnвЂ™t DDoS people. 12 post on a thread called вЂњHiring a hit on a Web siteвЂќ that Rasbora has since deleted,В he tells a fellow Hackforums user, вЂњIf all else fails and you just want it offline, PM me.вЂќ This reply came in response to my reading him several posts that heвЂ™d made on Hackforums not 24 hours earlier that strongly suggested he was still in the business of knocking Web sites offline: In a Feb. вЂњI donвЂ™t see what a wall of text can really tell you about what someone does in real life though,вЂќ said Rasbora, whose real-life identity is being withheld because heвЂ™s a minor. Despite his insistence that heвЂ™s never launched DDoS attacks, Rasbora did eventually allow that someone reading his posts on Hackforums might conclude that he was actively involved in DDoS attacks for hire. RasboraвЂ™s most recent project just happens to be gathering, maintaining huge вЂњtop qualityвЂќВ lists of servers that can be used to launch amplification attacks online. HereвЂ™s what I wrote about Sergiy at the time: That 2014 story declined to quote Rasbora by name because he was a minor, but his father seemed alarmed enough about my inquiry that he insisted his son speak with me about the matter. If you think that is any kind of illegal work, please, let me know.вЂќ вЂњI also have major concern what my 15 yo son doing.

вЂњI am writing you after our phone conversation just to confirm that you may call evening time/weekend to talk to my son Sergio regarding to your reasons,вЂќ Peter Usatyuk wrote in an email to this author on Feb. I phoned Usatyuk the elder because SergiyвЂ™s alter egos had been posting evidence on Hackforums and elsewhere that heвЂ™d just hit with a 200 Gbps DDoS attack, which was then considered a fairly impressive DDoS assault. Booter MasterвЂќ - was heavily involved in helping to launch crippling DDoS attacks. I did so because a brief amount of sleuthing on Hackforumsnet revealed that his then 15-year-old son Sergiy - who at the time went by the nicknames вЂњ RasboraвЂќ and вЂњ Mr. In February 2014, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to UsatyukвЂ™s father Peter Usatyuk, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. But UsatyukвЂ™s involvement in the DDoS-for-hire space very much predates that period. Justice Department press release on the guilty plea says Usatyuk - operating under the hacker aliases вЂњ Andrew QuezвЂќ and вЂњ Brian MartinezвЂќ - admitted developing, controlling and operating the aforementioned booter services from around August 2015 through November 2017. Most of these have since been deleted.ДЄ U.S. Some of RasboraвЂ™s posts on hackforumsnet prior to our phone call in 2014.

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