On Monday, I profiled asylumbooter.com, one of several increasingly public DDoS-for-hire services posing as Web site "stress testing" services. Today, we'll look at ragebooter.net, yet another attack service except for one secret feature which sets it apart from the competition: According the site's proprietor, ragebooter.net includes a hidden backdoor that lets the FBI monitor customer activity.
This bizarre story began about a week ago, when I first started trying to learn who was responsible for running RageBooter. In late March, someone hacked and leaked the users table for ragebooter.net. The database showed that the very first user registered on the site picked the username "Justin," and signed up with the email address "primalpoland@gmail.com."
That email address is tied to a now-defunct Facebook account for 22-year-old Justin Poland from Memphis, Tenn. Poland's personal Facebook account used the alias "PRIMALRAGE," and was connected to a Facebook page for an entity called Rage Productions. Shortly after an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Poland's personal Facebook page was deleted, and his name was removed from the Rage Productions page.
Ragebooter.net's registration records are hidden behind WHOIS privacy protection services. But according to a historic WHOIS lookup at domaintools.com, that veil of secrecy briefly fell away when the site was moved behind Cloudflare.com, a content distribution network that also protects sites against DDoS attacks like the ones Ragebooter and its ilk help to create (as I noted in Monday's story, some of the biggest targets of booter services are in fact other booter services). For a brief period in Oct. 2012, the WHOIS records showed that ragebooter.net was registered by a Justin Poland in Memphis.
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