Police continue to arrest distributed denial-of-service attack extortion suspects, but such attacks have nevertheless continued. Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina collared two individuals suspected of being involved in the high-profile extortion group DDoS for Bitcoin. Other criminals have been moving in to exploit related shakedown opportunities, using attacks and tactics that may have no outwardly different appearance. “Most of these copycats either don’t have the capabilities of the attacks, which were at most 50 gigabits,” says Martin McKeay, a senior security advocate at Akamai.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/stresserbooter-services-fuel-ddos-extortion-a-9221