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"DDoS-For-Bitcoin" Blackmailers Arrested (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the throw-away-the-key dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The DDoSing outfit that spawned the trend of "DDoS-for-Bitcoin" has been arrested by Europol in Bosnia Herzegovina last month. DD4BC first appeared in September 2015, when Akamai blew the lid on their activities. Since then almost any script kiddie that can launch DDoS attacks has followed their business model by blackmailing companies for Bitcoin.

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  1. Criminals running out of fresh ideas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    From TFA:

    ... The organization's tactics spawned multiple copycat groups, which later spawned their own copycats, and the DDoS-4-Bitcoin extortion scheme has become a regular practice these days ...

    It is a sad world when even the criminals are running out of fresh ideas