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Grand National extortion attacks 'unlikely'
News The massive bandwidth extortion attacks that crippled online gambling sites last year are unlikely to be repeated ahead of this year's Grand National horse race, which takes place on Saturday, industry experts predicted on Friday.
[April 8, 2005, 12:20]
Hackers shy away from DDoS attacks
News The quantity of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched for the purpose of extortion has fallen, according to security vendor Symantec. Although there are likely a number of factors at play here, I think there is one primary factor: denial...
[May 3, 2007, 12:52]
High-tech's thin blue line
News The NHTCU is now working to track down professional gangs who hire technical experts to build botnets to help carry out extortion, identity theft and spam assaults. The NHTCU advised the betting firm to pay extortion demands after the betting site...
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
Mobile adult sites face hacking threats
News Network operators and companies looking to provide pornography or gambling-related Internet content for mobile phones may face the same extortion attacks that have plagued online providers, according to analyst group Gartner.
[October 24, 2005, 16:55]
Thousands of companies are paying off online extortionists
News Alan Paller, director of research for security organisation SANS, said today that online extortion was rife and that cybercrime was set to get worse. Six or seven thousand organisations are paying online extortion demands," said Paller on Friday at...
[October 8, 2004, 14:25]
Identification of Repeated Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers Denial of Service attacks have become a formidable weapon of extortion, vandalism and ideological attacks, causing damages estimated in the millions of dollars to commercial, government and personal sites.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Schneier: Cyber-extortion on the rise
News Schneier wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that the security company he founded, Counterpane, has seen proof of attack capability followed by extortion demands — but said the attacks he had seen had not been against power companies.
[January 23, 2008, 16:28]
Major Online Stock Broker Turns to Verizon Business to Help Stop a Potentially Devastating DDoS Attack
White Papers And, as a major online stock broker found out, the threat of a DDoS attack can be the perfect tool for extortion. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are often the weapon of choice for would-be criminals who target Internet sites.
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Papers The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity data, send out vast...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
Online extortion victim speaks out
News Malik then contacted the Russian gangsters behind the extortion scam and asked for one day to get the money together. And to this day the attacks continue - though they have little impact on the NoChex Web site.
[May 31, 2005, 12:40]
Criminal gangs blackmail Web users with porn threat
News While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a kickback of thousands of pounds, it seems some are taking a more small-scale approach to extortion: now average PC users are being targeted.
[July 22, 2004, 16:30]
Microsoft dodges anti-spyware charge accusations
Talkback For Microsoft to charge *anything* "extra" in order to protect it's customers from the *glaring* and *long-standing* security *defects* in MS' own technologies (today, ActiveX; but, mark my words, many-time-more-whiz-bangier WMI, too) would amount...
[December 18, 2004, 10:31]
UK cybercrime unit tasked with securing Olympics IT
News We are already seeing fraudulent websites exploiting the Olympics and we are considering what potential there is for hacking or extortion linked to DDoS attacks," she told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com, at the IT Directors Disaster Recovery...
[January 14, 2009, 10:40]
Explaining the Estonian cyberattacks
News There's no extortion going on. When it comes to denial-of-service attacks, Jose Nazario has seen just about everything. As senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, Nazario closely monitors network attacks.
[May 30, 2007, 15:34]
Worm warfare rages on
News Botnets have also been used to mount DoS attacks against online businesses targeted by extortion schemes, experts have said. He said we may well see a period of intense activity in malicious software attacks as these groups vie for "pole position.
[August 18, 2005, 9:00]
DoS attacks: The plague for our times?
News There are already documented cases of extortion using the threat of DDoS attacks. Unfortunately, DoS attacks have evolved into much more than one company trying to cause problems for another. With broadband access almost ubiquitous, there are no...
[November 7, 2005, 10:35]
What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs? review
Reviews Last month, Dutch authorities arrested three individuals who used technology from 180Solutions to plant remote access Trojans on roughly 1.5 million PCs, and then used this platform to threaten various companies with denial-of-service attacks...
[November 29, 2005, 7:55]
Telecoms giants team up to fight hackers
News We're seeing more technology-savvy criminals trying to make money through denial-of-service extortion schemes," Slaby said in a statement. The new Fingerprint Sharing Alliance hopes to help its members, which include BT, Cisco, EarthLink, MCI and...
[March 29, 2005, 9:10]
Global Hell hacker to plead guilty, Part II
News Yarbrough dubbed gH a "cybergang" citing its gang-like organisation structure and the types of crimes its members indulged in, which included trafficking in stolen credit card numbers and a kind of digital extortion.
[March 30, 2000, 16:20]
CIA: Cyberattack caused multi-city blackout
News We have information, from multiple regions outside the US, of cyber-intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands," said Donahue. Donahue added that the CIA does not know who executed the attacks or why, but that all of the attacks...
[January 21, 2008, 11:58]
