The last four days have seen at least four private email providers taken offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where servers are overwhelmed with maliciously-generated traffic. All are being targeted by a strange crew called the Armada Collective.
As I reported on Thursday, ProtonMail, the encrypted email start-up set up by CERN researchers in Geneva, paid a ransom to the hackers who’d threatened to continue flooding its data center. After the payment of 15 Bitcoin (around $6,000) was made, the company was continually hit over the weekend, though it believes another group was responsible for the subsequent attacks. For the full article click here
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