Tuesday 13 September 2016

Get an email titled 'Distributed Denial of Service?' Probably just ignore it

I got an email with a rather disturbing title yesterday. 


Here is the content of that email:
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We are,  New World Hacking Groups


We'll begin massive DDoS attack Today, you have 5 hours after reading your posts!!!


1 - We'll execute some targeted attacks and check your DDoS servers by the 500 Gbps attack power
2 - We can do multi-vector attacks Layer 3-7 TCP, UDP, SYN; NTP, DNS, SSDP - Amplification
3 - You do not help us antiddos, because we know your real IP address and it will always be able to find out
4 - Do not have time to change the hosting
5 - You can get away from the attack, if you pay 1.5 bitcoin to bitcoin ADDRESS:  1CB7Q8Mb77qSbkXnjynqGTjUTdFzFuV2EJ
6 - If you do not pay before the attack 1.5 bitcoin, the price will increase to 15 bitcoins
7 - Attacks every day will cost you 15 bitcoins
8 - We will continue to attack for a long time, as long as you do not pay!!!
9 - If you do not pay, we will destroy your business
                                                 Transfer 1.5 bitcoin to ADDRESS: 1CB7Q8Mb77qSbkXnjynqGTjUTdFzFuV2EJ


How to pay bitcoin? Google for the additional information!
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Having been the target of a similar threat regarding the Patreon hack, I did a bit of due diligence, searching around to find out if anyone had reported on the same story. Nada.

According to the so-called hackers, I had 5 hours to pay them, but now we are way past that deadline with no ill effects. It seems pretty safe to say that if you ignore this email, you will be fine and so will your website!

Don't fall for these tricks if you can possibly avoid it.

[Photo by Colin / CC BY-SA 4.0]

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