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CastleCops.com Hit With Reputation-Based Attacks
An anonymous reader writes "The all-volunteer based online fraud fighting group CastleCops.com is currently the target of ongoing reputation-based attacks in which criminals use phished PayPal accounts to donate thousands of dollars to CastleCops from dozens of victims. This attack appears to be in response to a recent series of failed denial-of-service attacks against the CastleCops, Web site. From the story: 'A few donations were for as little as $1, while other fake donations ranged as high as $2,800. To the victims of the stolen PayPal accounts, it looks as if CastleCops is the one stealing their money, when in reality, it's the attackers. Also, the fraudulent activity seeks to ruin their relationship with PayPal.' In a comment left on Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog, CastleCops co-founder Paul Laudanksi says while the group's site remains under a heavy DDoS attack, it is currently down due to a hardware failure, not the attack itself."
CastleCops needs to start treating what they are doing more like a business and less like a hobby.
And what then? People who don't like them will magically quit stealing money in their name? Their site will stop having DDoS attacks? Newsflash for you, buddy: even large corporations get DDoS attacks and fraud. Should banks treat what they are doing "more like a business" to stop people from sending out phishing emails, or are they "business enough" to prove that your statement is ludicrous?