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Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ransomware developers have found another method of monetizing their operations by adding a DDoS component to their malicious payloads. So instead of just encrypting your files and locking your screen, new ransomware versions seen this week also started adding a DDoS bot that quietly blasts spoofed network traffic at various IPs on the Internet.
Softpedia points out that "Renting out DDoS botnets on the Dark Web is a very lucrative business, even if prices have gone down in recent years."
Softpedia points out that "Renting out DDoS botnets on the Dark Web is a very lucrative business, even if prices have gone down in recent years."
need to be hunted down and killed, and quickly too, do it enough and soon the rest of them will quit because it is not worth it anymore
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Why should ransomware authors and DDoS script kiddies have any place in society? Execute them.
How will they be able to submit their online ransomware payment if their network is clogged from a DDoS?
No. The traffic is small from each victim. But when it adds up at the target, then it matters. Otherwise anyone would notice when he's infected.
Neither the summary, nor the article clarify the operating systems that are vulnerable. I suspect that this is, once again, an issue that only affects Windows users.
Spoofed DDOS attacks wouldn't be a problem if the users' ISPs implemented source address filtering.
Come to think of it, an awful lot of the Internet's problems would be resolved by ISPs implementing source address filtering.
for making it easier to find the infected machines on my networks!
One can pay to get encrypted files back. But one still have the DDoS component. When will it be possible to pay for the malware being removed?
What's that you said, fake name online using douchebag?