Security News > 2022 > June > Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services attacks.

Gatrel, was convicted of owning and operating two websites - DownThem.org and AmpNode.com - that sold DDoS attacks.

AmpNode spoofed servers that could be pre-configured with DDoS attack scripts and attack amplifiers to launch simultaneous attacks on victims.

According to the FBI, Gatrel gave expert advice to his subscribers, including given guidance on the best ways to bring down different types of computers and to bypass services designed to protect enterprises against DDoS attacks.

"The subscription plans varied in cost and offered escalating attack capability, allowing customers to select different attack durations and relative attack power, as well as the ability to launch several simultaneous, or 'concurrent' attacks."

Gatrel's system would run reflected amplification attacks, using one or more of his dedicated attack servers to illegally draw the necessary resources from hundreds to thousands of systems for the DDoS attack.

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