Armada Collective has threatened to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on seven South Korean banks unless they pay the equivalent of $ 315,000 in bitcoins to no later than Monday, June 26. South Korean authorities are in a “state of emergency” as the threats come just a month after WannaCry’s famous global cyber attack which infected millions of computers in hundreds of countries, including South Korea, and linked since then, in the authorship to North Korea. South Korea has paid large sums of money in the past to hackers.”]
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