Preparing for a RDDoS extortion attack

Ransom attacks dominate cybercrime headlines. May’s Colonial Pipeline attack reduced US east coast fuel supply by 45 percent, resolved only by a $4.4 million ransom payment. In the weeks that followed, President Joe Biden even went as far as calling on Vladimir Putin to move against ransomware groups operating from Russia. Unsurprisingly, these incidents have sparked a number of high-profile …

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Ransomware extortion attacks now commonplace

Ransomware extortion attacks have become so common and effective that the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has classified the threat as among the most potent out there. A new report from NCA states that the pandemic drove everyone online, including criminals. To commit crimes at scale and avoid detection, criminals increasingly used emerging technologies, the NCA says, adding that ransomware …

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