Here’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.” “I also have major concern what my 15 yo son doing. “I 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,” Peter Usatyuk wrote in an email to this author on Feb. I phoned Usatyuk the elder because Sergiy’s alter egos had been posting evidence on Hackforums and elsewhere that he’d just hit with a 200 Gbps DDoS attack, which was then considered a fairly impressive DDoS assault. Booter Master” - 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 “Rasbora” and “Mr. In February 2014, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to Usatyuk’s father Peter Usatyuk, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. But Usatyuk’s involvement in the DDoS-for-hire space very much predates that period. Usatyuk - operating under the hacker aliases “Andrew Quez” and “Brian Martinez,” 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, Usatyuk’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 “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostressin, quezstressercom, betabootercom, databootercom, instabootercom, polystresscom and zstressnet.Īccording to the U.S. The jail time was handed down to Sergiy P. A screenshot of databootercom, circa 2017.

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