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.A U.S. In addition to serving the 13-month jail sentence and three years of supervised release, Usatyuk will forfeit $542,925 in proceeds from the scheme, as well as dozens of servers and other computer equipment that powered his many DDoS-for-hire businesses.Some of RasboraвЂ™s posts on hackforumsnet prior to our phone call in 2014. His dad hung up on me when I called Wednesday evening requesting comment. 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, 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 qualityвЂќ lists of servers that can be used to launch amplification attacks online. HereвЂ™s an excerpt of what I wrote about Sergiy at the time: That 2014 story declined to quote Rasbora by name because he was a minor then, 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 вЂњRasboraвЂќ and вЂњMr. Usatyuk - operating under the hacker aliases вЂњAndrew QuezвЂќ and вЂњBrian Martinez,вЂќ among others - admitted developing, controlling and operating the aforementioned booter services from around August 2015 through November 2017.

As of September 12, 2017, ExoStresser advertised on its website that this one booter service had launched 1,367,610 DDoS attacks, and caused targets to suffer 109,186.4 hours of network downtime (-4,549 days). Justice Department, in just the first 13 months of the 27-month long conspiracy, UsatyukвЂ™s booter users ordered approximately 3,829,812 DDoS attacks. Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill., who pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and owning, administering and supporting illegal вЂњbooterвЂќ or вЂњstresserвЂќ services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostressin, quezstressercom, betabootercom, databootercom, instabootercom, polystresscom and zstressnet.ДЄccording to the U.S. The jail time was handed down to Sergiy P. A screenshot of databootercom, circa 2017.

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