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."

Comments

Blame the incompetent ISPs

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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.