DDoS Attackers Revive Old Campaigns to Extort Ransom

DDoS Attackers Revive Old Campaigns to Extort Ransom

Cybercrime as-a-service , DDoS Protection , Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Hackers Circle Back to Again Attack Victims Who Refused to Pay an Earlier Ransom Demand Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 23, 2021    

Threat actors behind a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeted the same set of victims again after the organizations failed to pay the initial ransom, a new report by security firm Radware finds.


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The report notes the victims were first hit by the unidentified group in August or September 2020. Then when the victims failed to pay the initial ransom demand, they were sent additional ransom extortion emails in December 2020 and January, with the threat actors demanding between five to 10 bitcoins ($160,000 to $320,000).


Soon after the victims received the second set of threatening messages, the organizations were hit with a DDoS attack that exceeded 200Gbps and lasted more than nine hours without interruption, the report notes.


"Maybe you forgot us, but we didn't forget you. We were busy working on more profitable projects, but now we are back," the second ransom note read, according to Radware.


Radware researchers believe the two rounds of attacks were conducted by the same threat actor due to the similarities in the attack infrastructure and the messages received from the attackers. Also, the companies that ..

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