Security News > 2021 > September > Admin of DDoS service behind 200,000 attacks faces 35yrs in prison

32-year old Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois, ran two websites that allowed paying users to launch more than 200,000 DDoS attacks on targets in both the private and public sector.

He ran two sites, DownThem and Ampnode, both enabling DDoS attacks.

Gatrel used DownThem to sell subscriptions for his DDoS services and AmpNode offered "Bulletproof" server hosting options to customers that needed servers pre-configured with DDoS attack scripts and lists of vulnerable systems that could amplify the assault.

According to the documents, users are responsible for launching over 200,000 DDoS attacks.

Customers could choose from multiple subscriptions, each coming with various attack capabilities such as duration, strength, or the possibility of concurrent attacks.

With the sight set on a target, the service would use the AmpNode attack servers to run "Reflected amplification attacks" using resources from "Hundreds or thousands of other servers connected to the internet."

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