Akamai warns of a rash of less sophisticated attempts to extort companies by threatening distributed denial-of-service attacks. The latest crop of attackers is imitating two groups, the Armada Collective and DD4BC, both of which hit companies and organizations last year with DDoS attacks unless a ransom was paid in bitcoin. The groups are often sending very general threats to many organizations that are more similar to spam. The extortionists are just sending it to every email address they can find, hoping somebody will turn around and pay.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/akamai-beware-copycat-extortionists-a-9180