Leading Bitcoin and Tech Firms Recovering from Bitcoin Ransom DDoS Attacks

Leading Bitcoin and Tech Firms Recovering from Bitcoin Ransom DDoS Attacks

Since the beginning of 2015, an increasing number of technology firms and bitcoin startups have been targeted by anonymous hackers demanding bitcoin ransoms. Encrypted email service provider Protonmail is one of many victims suffering from extremely powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that have effectively shut down some of their servers and databases for weeks. According to Protonmail, the hackers begun to target its datacenter that is shared with other Swiss technology firms in Geneva, leaving no choice for the team to pay over US$6,000 in bitcoin ransom to the hackers,....


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