Justice Department.īooters, or stressers, are publicly-available, web-based services that allow cybercriminals to overwhelm a computer system with un-requested traffic. Those services and website were used to launch millions of “distributed denial-of-service,” or DDoS, attacks, which disrupted internet connections of targeted computers, deliberately slowed or crashed targeted websites and interrupted normal business operations, according to the U.S. Usatyuk, 20, of Orland Park, Ill., helped develop, control and operate a number of “booter” services and websites between August 2015 and November 2017, according to court documents. An Illinois man was sent to in prison last week for his role in providing access to illegal “booter” services, including one said to have been used in a 2016 hacking attack on the Franklin Regional School District and several other regional computer systems.
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