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03-04-2018, 03:44 PM
Cryptocurrency ransom demands popped up in recent cyberattacks
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One of the most common, and irritating, cyberattacks — the distributed-denial-of-service (or DDoS) — now has the potential to come with a twist of cryptocurrency mining.
Security researchers with the internet services company Akamai have noticed something unusual as they've responded to a spate of recent DDoS attacks. Buried beneath the traffic deluge designed to grind a target's web traffic to a halt are ransom notes.
SEE ALSO: Salon's new business plan is running cryptocurrency-mining malware on your computer (https://mashable.com/2018/02/13/salon-coinhive-cryptocurrency-monero/)
"It’s actually like a DDoS attack with a phishing attack with an extortion attack all rolled into one," said Chad Seaman, a senior engineer with Akamai's security intelligence response team, in an interview with Fortune. "When we saw it we were like, huh, clever bastards." Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/03/monero-ddos-attacks-ransom-note/)
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One of the most common, and irritating, cyberattacks — the distributed-denial-of-service (or DDoS) — now has the potential to come with a twist of cryptocurrency mining.
Security researchers with the internet services company Akamai have noticed something unusual as they've responded to a spate of recent DDoS attacks. Buried beneath the traffic deluge designed to grind a target's web traffic to a halt are ransom notes.
SEE ALSO: Salon's new business plan is running cryptocurrency-mining malware on your computer (https://mashable.com/2018/02/13/salon-coinhive-cryptocurrency-monero/)
"It’s actually like a DDoS attack with a phishing attack with an extortion attack all rolled into one," said Chad Seaman, a senior engineer with Akamai's security intelligence response team, in an interview with Fortune. "When we saw it we were like, huh, clever bastards." Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/03/monero-ddos-attacks-ransom-note/)
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