2 before Common Pleas Court Judge Timothy Krieger.
King was charged with two felony counts for the unlawful use of a communication device to disrupt computer functions. King, then an 18-year-old senior at Franklin Regional High School, bought one of the programs and uploaded it to flood the school’s computer system with data, police said. In November 2016, county prosecutors contend that Michaela G. Prosecutors said Usatyuk created a corporation called OKServers LLC in Delaware and essentially offered a variety of hacking services for a subscription fee. 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.