To be fair, you could trace these transactions, and any from the address that receives them. It seems much better to use Monero or something if you intend to be nefarious. This is probably just ill thought out.
I don't understand how this works from the ransom email given. Anyone could send that email. It is because it is the first email? Otherwise why doesn't absolutely everyone send their own bitcoin address to any entity that seems to be having some sort of problem?
It's becoming a pattern in the last few weeks. Fastmail manages my business email which is causing quite the annoyance.
According to the article, this is targeting multiple "privacy and security-centric email services". What are the odds this is a coordinated attempt to drive folks to less secure, or bigger corporate services?
I can't think of any reason any intelligence agency in the world would want others using small, "privacy and security centric" (whatever that means? If your email is at any point unencrypted, it's not secure nor private) providers.
Cloud email providers were a dream come true to the world's intelligence agencies and law enforcement.
I could be wrong/naive but aren't most DDOS attackers using a bunch of cheap VMs on the cloud to create a distributed network to attack ? Can these providers not do a better job of identifying the culprits and shutting them down ? I doubt it is easy to create Distributed-DOS if access to cheap VMs are restricted.
IoT devices get infected because they usually use common software stacks that go un patched. There's crawlers always doing their thing and looking to pop these.
"Victims were targeted with a DDoS attack, and an email was later sent to the organizations, asking for a 0.06 BTC (~$4,000) ransom demand."
Four thousand dollars. I guess they were trying to shoot low in hopes of a quick payment?
Also, Runbox posted a copy of the ransom email: https://blog.runbox.com/2021/10/runbox-is-under-attack-by-ex...