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DDoS Extortion Attempts On the Rise

Posted by michael on from the pay-to-play dept.

John Flabasha writes "There's an excellent article that originated on the LA Times and was syndicated to Yahoo News about DDoS attacks on online gaming and one of the solutions out there. Since when did ISP null routes go out of style?" We've run a number of previous stories about DoS blackmail attempts, like this one or this one.

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  1. DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER by to_kallon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Instead of using a few machines, the extortion gangs control hundreds of thousands
    with all those computers "they" could bring down the internet! OH NOES!

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