DD4BC Launches New Wave Of DDoS Attacks The extortionist group DD4BC is believed to be connected to a new wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against organizations based in Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The group is asking for 25 BTC from those affected in exchange for giving up the flood of inbound data that has resulted in the recipient sites becoming inaccessible. Recently, DD4BC was mentioned in a warning published by the Swiss Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCERT). GovCERT is a branch of MELANI, a national agency that deals with cyber security issues. The warning read: “In the past days MELANI / GovCERT.ch has received several requests regarding a distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion campaign related to ‘DD4BC’.” As per the New Zealand government, the extortion attempts seemingly begin with a short DDoS attack that is meant to reflect the possible impact after the ransom demand has been made. DD4BC has been linked to previous attacks on digital currency websites and businesses. The attacks include extortion attempts made against various well-known mining pool operators. GovCERT confirmed that it had so far received reports from several high profile targets, stating that some of the organizations were the victims of a wave of DDoS attacks. DD4BC’s activity has been on the rise recently, with the new wave of attacks beginning at the start of March. “ While these attacks have targeted foreign organizations in the past months, we have seen an increase of activity of DD4BC in Europe recently. Since earlier this week, the DD4BC Team expanded their operation to Switzerland, ” stated GovCERT. GovCERT also asked those affected by the attacks to not pay the ransom. Rather the agency has advised victims to file a police report and seek additional mitigation support from their Internet service provider. The news of the New Zealand attacks became public at the start of May after the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning regarding DDoS attacks on local organizations. While the agency did not specify who the perpetrator behind the attacks was, it did confirm that an investigation into the attacks was ongoing. Barry Brailey, chairman of Cybersecurity nonprofit New Zealand Internet Task Force, confirmed the link between DD4BC and the recent DDoS attacks in New Zealand. “ Yes, [the series of attacks] appears to be linked to the group/moniker ‘DD4BC’, ” he said. Other companies who have fallen victim to the group include BitBay, BitQuick, Coin Telegraph, Expresscoin, and Bitalo- who created a 100 BTC bounty after it was attacked. Source: http://bitcoinvox.com/article/1674/hacker-group-dd4bc-new-ddos-attacks

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