Graham Cluley reports:
An online criminal gang calling itself the “Armada Collective” has been demanding that online businesses pay thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, or face having their websites brought to their knees by crippling internet attacks.
And, as the DDoS experts at Akamai point out, it is online companies who have the most to lose from downtime who are at the greatest risk.
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