DDoS-for-hire service which bombarded websites with attacks earns man two years in prison

The US authorities have sentenced a man to 24 months in a federal prison after he was found to have run a DDoS-for-hire service that knocked websites off the internet.
Gatrel's DownThem service, according to a US Department of Justice press release, launched more than 200,000 attacks for over 2000 registered users of DownThem between October 2014 and November 2018. Exploiting misconfigured routers and other devices attached to the internet, DownThem customers could launch DNS reflection attacks that flooded their intended targets with unwanted internet traffic.
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