Gangs Extort Companies With DDoS Attacks

Pcol writes "The Financial Times reports that gangs based in Eastern Europe have been launching attacks on corporate networks costing the companies millions of dollars in lost business and exposing them to blackmail. Sites have been asked to pay up to ensure they are free from Distributed Denial of Service attacks for a year. One detective reported, 'If the demand comes in for $40,000-50,000, compared to the losses they're suffering, there's an attraction for the companies to pay and hope it goes away. But there's nothing to say it will go away.'"

Comments

Isn't Microsoft culpable in this mess?

[BoomerSooner]

I mean if their software facilitates this type of extortion shouldn't they be held accountable?