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After a 9-day trial, a California jury that held two distributed denial of service (DDoS) operations administrators, found him guilty. Matthew Gatrel, a 32 years old man, of Saint Charles, Illinois, operated two websites that enabled payment to users to launch over 200,000 DDoS attacks on private and public targets.
Court filings disclose that since October 2014 Gatrel has operated DDoS services. DownThem and Ampnode are the two sites being used, which allowed the operation of DDoS attacks. Gatrel has used DownThem to sell DDOS services subscriptions (sometimes referred to as “booters” or “stressers”) and AmpNode has supplied clients that wanted pre-configured servers with DDoS attack programs and lists of vulnerable systems that may magnify the attack.
The researchers have discovered that they have over 2,000 registered clients in databases of the DownThem booter portal. As per the documents, more than 200,000 DDoS attacks are launched by users. The targets covered households and schools, universities, websites of municipal and local authorities, and financial organizations throughout the world.
“Often called a “booting” service, DownThem itself relied upon powerful servers associated with Gatrel’s AmpNode bulletproof hosting service. Many AmpNode customers were themselves operating for-profit DDoS services” – the U.S. Department of Justice.
Several subscriptions can be used by clients, each with different attack and offensive capabilities like length, force, or the potential of competitor attacks.
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