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Wait, seriously? Is this a common thing? I've not heard a lot of noise about ransom demands.

• Kiro 14y ago
  I don't know if it's common but I can confirm it happened to us at least.
• xal 14y ago
  It's very common to target ecommerce stores like this. Specifically jewellery stores for some reason. Probably because it's a luxury good and somehow botnet owners link that to wealth of the owners. We host tens of thousands ecommerce stores and sometimes get these forwarded. We estimate that our customers receive at least one a month. DDOS attacks are a weekly to bi-weekly occurance for us. The internet is a messy place.
  • sbarre 14y ago
    I would love to hear more about how you mitigate them.. Or is this part of the "secret sauce" for hosting companies?
    • xal 14y ago
      yes, if we describe it, people will start "unit testing" their botnets against us.
      • sbarre 14y ago
        Fair enough! That makes sense...
• tptacek 14y ago
  It is very common; these scams were the bane of online casinos a few years ago, and hit major financial services companies more recently. Sorry, did I say "scam"? I meant "digital equivalent of a sit-in".
• antimatter 14y ago
  The company I work for owns a site which has a niche community of buyers and sellers. There is a particular guy on there who has a reputation of scaming other users. When the users complain and post negative feedback about him, he threatens our company and follows through with DDoS attacks until the negative feedback/comments about him are removed.
  • danielweber 14y ago
    It sounds like you are giving in every time. Is that your best option?