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Subject: [ISN] Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-08-28 11:00:58
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1508281100470.31509 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/28/irate_security_posse_intel_spooks_in_ddos_hushed_hacker_hunt/
By Darren Pauli
The Register
28 Aug 2015
A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in
a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of
service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.
An attacker using the handle DD4BC (DDoS for Bitcoins) is launching large
DDoS attacks against banks and other big business in the UK, Europe, the
US, and Australia and New Zealand demanding Bitcoin payment for the
assaults to end.
The details of the secretive group, which boasts skills in actor
attribution, are being kept under wraps to avoid tipping off the criminal
who is thought to be a lone wolf.
Its work, says Roland Dobbins of Arbor Network's security engineering and
response team, will likely precipitate an official intelligence
investigation should the extortionist continue to launch DDoS attacks
against big banks.
[...]
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