Online Extortion Works.

[Darksat]

How bad is online extortion getting? Alan Paller, a speaker at a London SANS Institute conference, claims that, "Six or seven thousand organizations are paying online extortion demands ... Every online gambling site is paying extortion. Hackers use DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, using botnets to do it. Then they say, 'Pay us $40,000, or we'll do it again.'"

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/283

 

[temi]

What,
This is facinating, give us cash or your servers get it

 

[Darksat]

Pretty much, and its sucessfull for a lot of hackers.