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Greek Banks Under Cyberattack, Face Ransom Demands (ft.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Hackers have targeted three Greek banks for a third time in five days, demanding a ransom from each lender of 20,000 bitcoin (€7m), according to Greek police and the country's central bank. A group calling itself the Armada Collective demanded the bitcoin ransom after staging its first attacks last Thursday, and then threatened a full collapse of the unnamed banks' websites if they refused to pay up. These initial attacks took the form of a distributed denial of service — flooding the banks' websites with requests so that they crashed under the strain. On Thursday, they succeeded in disrupting electronic transactions at all three banks for a short period, but customer information was protected, a police official said.
Sheesh, just let 'me take down the site. The money is protected.... /right/?
Maybe the 59th street bridge collapses on its own. We can't take that chance!
Will they take Drachma?
Rol.
That's like a Polish University.
This is like approaching the owner of a rust-and-bondo 1977 Pinto after he parks and demanding $100 or else "something might happen to the car's paint job".
Kinda makes you wonder just how stupid the extortionists are...
What an odd choice of someone to attack. After all the financial instability in Greece over the last couple years, including the banks restricting withdrawls, I would expect their banks to be less likely to be able to "just pay" the ransom, and their customers to be the least bothered by an inability to use the web site.
These initial attacks took the form of a distributed denial of service â" flooding the banks' websites with requests so that they crashed under the strain.
Really /.? Come on - we all know what a damn DoS attack is. (More frequently known as DDoS these days.) Is this a term the younger generation has forgotten or something?
Can someone remind me, please... why do banks need web sites, when there are ATMs everywhere?
Plz go.
Have gnu, will travel.
Attacking the Greek banks is like taking food from a homeless person. Sure, it's easy, but why be so vicious?
If a Greek bank collapses, real people suffer. Blameless people suffer. It's like kicking a dying dog: there's no excuse for it, it's just mean.
Someone should identify the perps and make them endure the equivalent hardship to what they are causing.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
When the country collapses, I'm sure the bankers will be the first to be lined up against the wall. There's always a silver lining!
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Isn't Greece bankrupt?
So, joke's on them?
You mean like Jagiellonian University in Krakow, founded in 1364, around the same time as North American civilization peaked?
The Greek National Security Service should track these individuals down and kill them, preferably with guns and quietly, while leaving a Greek 5 Euro banknote in each of their hands so that everyone knows it was a professional hit and why it was done.