Timeline for I got an email threatening to DDOS me if I don't pay a ransom. What should I do?
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| May 5, 2016 at 17:03 | comment | added | E.P. |
Crucial aspect: the extortion emails reuse Bitcoin addresses, there's no way the Armada Collective can tell who has paid and who has not (from the CloudFare blog). That gives one sufficient condition for knowing the email was fake - it if reuses a known bitcoin address that's been used in similar emails, it is overwhelmingly likely to be fake.
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| May 5, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | Also more info on the Cloudflare blog: blog.cloudflare.com/… | |
| May 5, 2016 at 12:24 | comment | added | gabe3886 | Same story basis, different source theregister.co.uk/2016/05/04/empty_ddos_threats_reloaded for those wanting more than one resource | |
| May 5, 2016 at 0:12 | history | answered | schroeder♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |