Friday, May 8, 2015

Bitcoin Extortion Group DD4BC Prompts Warning from Swiss Government

Extortionist group DD4BC appears to be connected to a new wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against organizations in Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia.

With the new attacks, the group is seeking 25 BTC from affected parties in exchange for relinquishing the flood of inbound data is issues that renders recipient websites inaccessible.

Most recently, DD4BC was named in an 8th May warning published by the Swiss Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCERT), a division of MELANI, a national agency focused on cybersecurity issues.

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