Scammers switch from Ashley Madison extortion to death threats

Last week, Salted Hash reported on the extortion attempts by a group of scammers targeting the leaked Ashley Madison email list. Since that time, the group has sent four other extortion attempts. The group delivering the messages is known as DD4BC (DDoS for Bitcoin) They’ve been connected to DDoS attacks against a number of targets in the public sector, mostly financial, but they’ve also targeted publishers and other businesses. So far, the extortion campaign has earned them nearly $30,000 USD.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2999560/scammers-switch-from-ashley-madison-extortion-to-death-threats.html