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Child Porn Accusation As Online Extortion Tactic

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-an-fbi-method dept.

Glenn writes "There's a story on silicon.com about a new twist in the tactics used by online extortionists trying to blackmail ecommerce sites with denial of service attacks. Yesterday one blackmailer threatened to send out child pornography emails in UK gambling site Blue Square's name if it didn't pay up 7000 Euros." This sounds even worse than simple DoS threats.

2 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since when do Catholic priests target gambling sites?

  2. Re:Sheesh by praxis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What did the soldiers killed execution style in Iraq last weekend solve? Did anything change? Was there a huge outcry? Will it change the political situation of this country?