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Ransomware gangs add DDoS attacks to their extortion arsenal
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Quote:A ransomware operation has started to utilize a new tactic to extort their victims: DDoS a victim's website until they return to the negotiation table.

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when a threat actor floods a website or a network connection with a large volume of requests to make a service inaccessible.

After negotiations stalled in a recent ransomware attack, a SunCrypt ransomware affiliate DDoSed a victim's website.

When the victim logged back into the ransomware's Tor payment site, they were greeted by a message stating that SunCrypt was responsible for the DDoS and will continue the attack if negotiations do not continue.

"At the moment your website is down due to the efforts of our tech. Please send us a message asap or further actions will be taken," the SunCrypt ransomware operator warned a victim.

When the victim asked why they were taking their website down, the ransomware operators stated that it was to force negotiations.

"We were in thr [sic] process on the negotiations and you didn't show up so further actions were taken," the threat actors stated.

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