- 63% Neustar EMEA customers have received a ransom-note type DDoS Attack
- All able to confidently ignore extortion attempts
“The best defense against extortion attempts is planning. Receiving a
threat demanding payment when your business is at stake can cause fear
and confusion about how to handle it. We are proud that our
DDoS stands for distributed denial of service and an attack of this kind
denies use of a website, server, network or other internet service to
its users. When these users are customers who are unable to access a
website to browse, buy or compare prices, significant damage is done to
the business, not only in terms of sales revenue but also to reputation
– according to a recent
First seen in late 1990s, DDoS attacks have traditionally been big enough to take websites down for several hours if not days. However, the past ten years has seen the rise of the extortion-type DDoS attack where a relatively small but noticeable attack is quickly followed by an email ransom note claiming responsibility and threatening more to come unless money is paid. Often not much money, but there’s the trap – if a susceptible a business is tempted to pay a small sum thinking the attacks will stop, all they have actually done is identified your website as one without professional DDoS protection and the attacks and requests for more and more money will continue.
When Team Internet, a leading provider of services in the direct navigation search market, experienced its first (and only) targeted attack, it was disconcerting.
“When the note came, I went straight to my
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For Neustar
Laura Cahill
AxiCom
+44 (0)20 8392 4071
laura.cahill@axicom.com
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