Now, it appears Dobbs is also planning to take his chances with a jury. Gatrel was convicted on all three charges of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, including conspiracy to commit unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. Prosecutors said Gatrel’s booter services - downthemorg and ampnodecom - helped some 2,000 paying customers launch debilitating digital assaults on more than 20,000 targets, including many government, banking, university and gaming websites. Despite admitting to FBI agents that he ran two booter services (and turning over plenty of incriminating evidence in the process), Gatrel opted to take his case to trial, defended the entire time by court-appointed attorneys. man charged in the government’s first 2018 mass booter bust-up. That was when a jury handed down a guilty verdict against Matthew Gatrel, a then 32-year-old St. computer crime laws - wasn’t properly tested in the courts until September 2021. But the government’s core claim - that operating a booter site is a violation of U.S. Many accused stresser site operators have pleaded guilty over the years after being hit with federal criminal charges. In 2018, the feds seized 15 stresser sites, and levied cybercrime charges against three men for their operation of booter services.ĭobbs’s booter service, IPStresser, in June 2020. This was the Justice Department’s second such mass takedown targeting DDoS-for-hire services and their accused operators. men for allegedly operating stresser services. The government seized four-dozen booter domains, and criminally charged Dobbs and five other U.S. Prosecutors say his service attracted more than two million registered users, and was responsible for launching a staggering 30 million distinct DDoS attacks. Department of Justice seized Dobbs’s IPStresser website and charged him with one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusions. Dobbs’s resume doesn’t name his booter service, but in it he brags about maintaining websites with half a million page views daily, and “designing server deployments for performance, high-availability and security.” The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. Dobbs, in an undated photo from his Github profile.
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