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At what point will cybersecurity firms arrange deals with cybercriminal organizations to keep the money flowing? * protection for our clients * drum up busine
by dsr_ 3y ago
At what point will cybersecurity firms arrange deals with cybercriminal organizations to keep the money flowing?
* protection for our clients
* drum up business for the market as a whole
* make competitors look bad -- especially if they get attacked directly
After all, breaking a window makes money for the glaziers.
- qaq 3y agocybercriminal organizations pull way more $ than cybersecurity firms do
- null0ranje 3y agoMaybe when supply outstrips demand? It looks like there is more than enough business for the foreseeable future that there is no need to restore to protection rackets.
- whimsicalism 3y agothis has already happened in a few notable cases with ddos protection providers, it’s basically digital rico
- throwup238 3y agoCloudflare? They provide DDoS protection to DDoS providers that would otherwise have taken each other down, so those providers can find clients for their services which further necessitates Cloudflare’s main product.
- lebean 3y agoWow they must be making millions on this lucrative market, defending DDoS providers from each other. An infinite money glitch!
- Aerbil313 3y ago> provide protection to DDoS providers that would otherwise have taken each other down Given many DDOSs are originated by botnets, is this possible?
- throwup238 3y agoDDoS providers have websites marketing their services which Cloudflare allows (for free!) in the name of not policing speech. Before Cloudflare, they didn't exist because competitors would always take each other down. Anyone who wanted to hire them had to go trawling the darkweb/freenet/random hacker forums.
- htrp 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/250/ https://xkcd.com/250/ also I think there was a thing on krebs where a reputation defender company was also operating one of those mugshot search sites https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-company-onerep-com-founded-dozens-of-people-search-firms/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...
- costco 3y agoUCEPROTECT has mastered the email blacklisting protection racket. Randomly list IP space on blacklist, force payment for removal, ???, profit.