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HostUS being extorted for large sums of cash by DDoS attackers
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How successful are these "wire money to Russia or we take your servers off the internet with DDoS" extortion schemes?
Do most companies just pay up instead of fighting?
What is the possibility that shady companies are paying criminals to attack their competitors?
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Welcome to capitalism. If you have money and resources, you can silence anyone and keep them at bay as you get richer.
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I'd figure it can successful if they charge less than what the company loses by the downtime.
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I'd imagine they're probably very successful until the company uses a CDN to reroute the attack away from themselves
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A hosting company can't really use a CDN.
They have to build a CDN themselves.
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>>55918431
This. If complying with the extortion is cheaper than both the cost of protection from their threat or the cost of dealing with their threat it will succeed, barring some ethical issue.
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